To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.