I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.