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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
I’m religiously opposed to religion.
Toleration is the best religion.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.