"And if you are a friend of wisdom, then do not be a friend of the mob."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, how much pain, how much torture it endures and knows how to transform to its advantage."

"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."