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?

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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.

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

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

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