Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.