One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.