No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.