Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.