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

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

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.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.