The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.