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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
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"Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art."
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"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
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"[N]ature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing."
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"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."
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