Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.