With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.