There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.