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?

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

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

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

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.

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