The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

The unexamined life is not worth living.