Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

There are as many preferences as there are men.