Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

True happiness springs from moderation.

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

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.