He Who Has Calmly Reconciled His Life

He Who Has Calmly Reconciled His Life To Fate, And Set Proud Death Beneath His Feet, Can Look Fortune In The Face, Unbending Both To Good And Bad; His Countenance Unconquered.

Who Would Give A Law To Lovers? Love Is Unto Itself A Higher Law.

Man Is So Constituted That He Then Only Excels Other Things When He Knows Himself.

And No Renown Can Render You Well-known: For If You Think That Fame Can Lengthen Life By Mortal Famousness Immortalized, The Day Will Come That Takes Your Fame As Well, And There A Second Death For You Awaits.

Music Is So Naturally United With Us That We Cannot Be Free From It - Even If We So Desired.