The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.