Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.