The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It is defeat which educates us.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.