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

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

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

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

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.