Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.