Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

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

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.

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

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.

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.