Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
Convert life into truth.