Democracy is the guarantee that we are governed as we deserve.
It is democracy when the power is no longer designated by the corrupt and ignorant, but by an ignorant majority.
Democracy cannot be placed above the level of the human material of which its constituents are formed.
Ten pounds is a lot of money; he who has them already begins to live prudently, and that is the end of happiness.
Debt is like a trap: it's easy to fall into it, but very difficult to get out.
Thinking women are the ones no one thinks about.
If ever, in your pursuit of happiness, you find it, you will be like an old woman looking for her glasses, when you discover that happiness has always been right under your nose.
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples between us, then you and I will each have an apple. And if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
There are great men among the small and great men among the great men.
The woman wants to live her own life, and the man, his; and each tries to draw the other from the right path. One pulls to the north, and another to the south; and as a result both go east, though neither likes the east wind.
Women turn everything upside down. Try to let a woman into your life, and you will immediately see that she needs one, and you need something completely different.
Women guess on the spot who we are ready to cheat on them with. Sometimes, before such a thing crosses our minds.
Ranks and titles are designed for those whose merits to the country are indisputable, but unknown to the population of this country.
A healthy nation does not regard its nationality as a healthy man does his backbone. And if you injure its national dignity, the nation will think of nothing else but its restoration. She will listen to no reformer, no philosopher, no preacher, until the demands of the Nationalists are met. The nation will not concern itself with anything else, however urgent, except reunification and liberation.
Common sense and diligence make up for lack of talent, while the most brilliant of geniuses can destroy their lives over a stupidity.
A novel may be too stupid to be published. Sometimes, however, a novel can be too good to be published.
Being honest isn't dangerous if you're also stupid.
The art of ruling consists in the organization of idolatry.
Who among us understands what he is doing? If we understood, we would probably never do anything.
People only give us interesting information when we contradict them.
People who can be happy don't have money, and people who have money can't be happy.
My way of joking is telling the truth. There is nothing funnier in the world.
Science is always unfair. She will never answer a question without asking ten instead.
The science of pronunciation. This is my profession and at the same time my favorite occupation. Happy is the one whose favorite occupation can procure a means of living!
To teach a person to do something is possible only when the personality of the pedagogue is holy.
Nations are like bees - they can only be pitied at the cost of their own lives.
Our century is the century of upstarts.
You can't become an expert in a limited field without becoming, in the general sense, an imbecile.
Hate is the coward's revenge for the fear he has caused.
There is no such woman who has managed to say "goodbye" in less than thirty words.