I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

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

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.