Women are more credulous than men.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.