If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

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

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

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

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