If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.