We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.