If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Politeness is organized indifference.
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
My poems mean what people take them to mean.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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