So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.