Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire