The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.