Principles can hardly keep the chastity of the soul pure, but love can keep the nobility of the heart. Often, while principles continue the struggle, love has already won a victory on their behalf.
If you want to know yourself, look at what others are doing; and if you want to understand others, then look into your own heart.
If I hate, I rob myself of something; if I love, I become rich with what I love.
Misanthropy is slow suicide; self-love is the greatest poverty of the living being.
Precisely because true art aims at something real and objective, it cannot be satisfied by mere apparent truth.
Art acts morally not only because it provides pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure provided by art is itself a path to morality.
Truth is a mirror; his reflection is unbearable for pretense and hypocrisy.
Truth does not suffer in any way from the fact that one does not recognize it.
True morality is learned only in the school of misfortune; permanent happiness can easily become an abyss fatal to virtue.
Just as for some science is a heavenly goddess, for others it seems like a fat cow that gives them butter.
How hateful is the wisdom that calls you to bloodshed!
When we passionately love someone who despises us, we painfully feel the chains of nature.
When a joker laughs at his joke, it loses its value.
When, admiring a painting, we forget the painter, it means that we are paying him the most refined praise that can exist.
If you have something to do, finish it faster.
Beauty is also a virtue, a beautiful woman cannot have flaws.
A severe ruler does not rule for long.
He who does not risk his life will never win it.
He who repents without blushing, always repents.
He who has a pure soul recognizes the victory of reason over self.
Only the misfortune of a great soul knows nobility.
Better a terrible end than endless horror.
Love wants to be a free sacrifice.
Love lifts up great souls.
Love and hunger rule the world.
Love is the only thing in nature for which the power of imagination is limitless and meets no obstacle in the way.
The May of life blooms only once.
Lack of courage earns us only contempt.
Majority of votes is not a measure of justice.
Courage grows with danger: the closer it approaches, the greater the forces.