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

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.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.