Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.