If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.