Who learns most from a good book is the author.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.