Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.