The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.