Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.