Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

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

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.