The cunning despise knowledge, the simple marvel at it, the wise use it.
A good government is not one that wants to make people happy, but one that knows how to do it.
The purpose of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.
What applies to everyone generally applies to no one.
I cannot imagine a philosophy which has a more injurious influence on the morality and independence of writers, than that which teaches them to feed on the goodwill of ministers and nobility. No other philosophy can so well turn men, intended by nature to be our blessing and adornment, into the shame and plague of society.
Could you play a nocturne on a sewer pipe flute? Because, for you, it is not so important that you are made of bronze, that your heart is a piece of cold iron. At night you want to hide your echo in something soft, feminine.
If the stars light up, doesn't that mean someone needs them?
We have blood in our veins, and not water, through the array of weapons we walk, so that, dying, we become ships, lines and other lasting things.
War is one of the greatest blasphemies against man and nature.
With nails of words I am nailed to the paper.
Come to me, people, and those who offended me.
You are my dearest and closest ones.
There is no coat more beautiful than bronzed muscles and fresh skin.
He's not a man, but a cloud in his pants.
I hate any kind of death!
I love any kind of life!
A published nonsense creates the conviction of some that they cannot write worse. These two, writing and being read, arouse the envy of four.
Poetry is like radium extraction. One gram extracted - one year of work.
Squeeze a single word for the sake of thousands of tons of verbal ore.
The Word is the commander of human power.
A kind word is a master of wonderful wonders.
Theater is not a mirror that reflects, but a struggle that magnifies.
Crap is, of course, always unprincipled; it generates an indifferent attitude towards the subject, avoiding the difficult one.
God made us men, and we ourselves are the measure of all things, therefore only what we recognize to be so according to our innate law is true and real.
Usually dishonest people rush to give advice.
Democracy is, at its core, a recognition that we as a society are responsible for each other.
Living is more important than revenge, and he who acts looks forward, not back.
Man's earthly vocation is to be wise and brave, free, possessive and happy... Humanists must be unyielding and always take up arms when hostile powers want to hinder man's vocation.
When the heart beats, the mind is silent.
When work becomes an indispensable condition of existence, it becomes a matter of honor and a moral basis of society.