The human mind ever longs for occupation.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

No sober person dances.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Work makes a callus against grief.