Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.