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

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

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Let the poet always walk thus

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.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.