It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

My main purpose in life is to do everything on purpose.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.