The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.