A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!