What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.