Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.