Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.