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

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.