Time takes away the grief of men.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The desire to write grows with writing.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.