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

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

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

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.