love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.