Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

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

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.