The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
History is the zoology of the human race.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.