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

“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.”

“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 grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”

“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”

“The truthe wakes up once and never dies.”