In Our Corruption We Perceive Beauties Unrevealed

Nations, Like Families, Have Great Men Only In Spite Of Themselves.

How Many Years Of Fatigue And Punishment It Takes To Learn The Simple Truth That Work, That Disagreeable Thing, Is The Only Way Of Not Suffering In Life, Or At All Events, Of Suffering Less.

It Is Necessary To Work, If Not From Inclination, At Least From Despair. Everything Considered, Work Is Less Boring Than Amusing Oneself.

You Walk On Corpses, Beauty, Undismayed.

...an Industry Which Can Furnish Results Identical To Nature Must Be The Absolute In Art.