Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her