Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.