We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.