To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.