Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Grace and mercy are never deserved.
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.