For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

People who don't count won't count.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.