Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over.
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
the only mortal sin is giving up.
To many mortals silence great gain brings.
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Matter and death are mortal illusions.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
Take courage, Mortal. . . Death cannot banish you from the Universe.