Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

International Relations are too important to be left to the specialists.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

A day without work is a day without food.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.