One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

I am looking for an honest man.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.