To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Those who live are those who fight.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
When liberty returns, I will return.
I see a dark light.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
