You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Music is the pathway to the heart.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.