When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.