I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned