What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.