Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.