The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.