Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.