If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Great artists have no country.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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

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.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.