Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

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