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

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.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

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.