There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

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

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

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.

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

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