“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”

“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

“In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”

“Yo he visto en la noche oscura llover sobre mi cabeza los rayos de lumbra pura de la divina belleza.”

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”