If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

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

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

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

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.