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

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

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.

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

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

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