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

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.

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

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.

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

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

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