I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.