Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?