Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
He who despairs is wrong.
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.