Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.