Quotes to inspire and reflect

Intellectuel = celui qui se dédouble.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me

A great book is like great evil.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Iacta alea est.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

My Princess of Parallelograms.

If I should meet thee

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

When we two parted

And when we think we lead, we are most led.

I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory.

Still I can’t contradict, what so oft has been said,

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;

Eternal spirit of the chainless mind!

She walks in beauty, like the night

A mind at peace with all below,

My days are in the yellow leaf;

My hair is grey, but not with years,

I’ll publish, right or wrong:

The Cincinnatus of the West.

Society is now one polished horde,

The English winter—ending in July,

Merely innocent flirtation,

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;

… That all-softening, overpowering knell,

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,

The mountains look on Marathon—

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,

In her first passion woman loves her lover,

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,

A little still she strove, and much repented,

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,

And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,

There was a laughing devil in his sneer.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!

There were his young barbarians all at play,

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs:

Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift