It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.