I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

We are free, but no to be evil

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.