The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger