Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.