Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.