Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.