Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Gray is the color of all theory

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.