Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.