People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.