Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.