The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.