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

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.