Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.