He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

This is no time to make new enemies.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.