The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Everything has been something before.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Where the earth is, we are.