There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.