But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.