The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.
The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it.
The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it.
One of the first conditions of happiness is the ability to take pleasure in other people's happiness.
Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.
People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.
The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.
Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.
More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea.
The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.
All poets are religious poets.
Only a poet can translate for the dead.
Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.
The poet's task is to give every echo a voice.
If you can abuse your power you have too much.
It's no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn't agree.
When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
Applause: the echo of a prejudice.
Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another.
