Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Let the poet always walk thus

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.