Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.