When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Let there be truth between us.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.