Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.