Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

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Let the poet always walk thus.

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

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

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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.

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