The existing world is not a fantasy. You cannot treat it, with impunity, as a fantasy.
What is created in art by the hand of man, can never be above the inspiration of the heart.
What we learned in schools and universities is not education, but only a way to get an education.
What to others we call sin, we call, as far as we are concerned, life experience.
Only poetry makes me cleaner and braver.
He who is capable of creating works of art, has no need to collect them.
Humanity, like every individual, falls ill with age from various diseases.
Good manners are what keep the smart from the stupid.
Good manners consist of small sacrifices.
Even if we travel the whole world in search of beauty, we won't find it if we don't take it with us
The value of a principle is determined by the number of facts it explains.
The more he defended his honor, the more carefully I counted the spoons.
The less a man thinks or knows about his own dignity, the more we like him.
What is a weed? A plant whose merit has yet to be discovered.
I pay the teacher, but my son is taught by his classmates.
If we talk all the time about peace, it will lead to war rather than if we talk all the time about war.
A wish is no less sweet than its realization.
Life, no matter how much you curse it, is still worth living.
He who takes many things upon himself, rightly expects many things from others.
He who has no prejudices must expect not to be understood.
There is no greater crime than a needless war.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step, but from the ridiculous to the sublime there is no way to get there.
A modest peace is better than some lavish victories.
Suffering only makes the strong stronger and the weak even weaker.
Man needs two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep his mouth shut.
The future worries us, but the past keeps us grounded. This is why the present escapes our sight.
Being stupid, selfish and having good health - these are the three necessary conditions to be happy. If the first condition is missing, the others are useless.
The progress we can hope for is to make people a little less evil.
Everything wears away, even pain.
All that is beautiful is moral.