The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.