Climbing involves the same position as crawling.
Venera, a wonderful and hard-working woman, was the goddess of love; Juno, a horribly curmudgeonly woman, the goddess of marriage; and they always bitterly hated each other.
Vision is the art of seeing the unseen.
Power is a temptation to the monarch, as wine or women are to a young man, as bribes to a judge, as money to an old man, and pride to a woman.
In general, I feel hatred and disgust towards the animal called man; but I love John, Peter, Thomas and so on with all my heart.
Anyone who can grow two ears of wheat where before only one grew deserves the highest respect of mankind and does more for his country than all the politicians put together.
Any government that rules without the consent of the ruled - that is the exact formula for slavery!
I'm as innocent as a two-year-old devil.
You young people think old people are fools; and we old people know that young people are stupid.
The genius immediately catches the eye, if only because all the stupid and ungifted are fronting against him.
To say that man is obliged to believe in God is not only untrue, but also foolish.
It has long been known that those who come second have an indisputable right to first place.
May God grant you to live all the days of your life.
A high official must observe two rules: always restrain his feelings and never restrain his tendency to fulfill promises.
Dignity, status, wealth are in a sense necessary for the elderly, so that the youth keep their distance and do not think of making fun of their advanced age.
A bad company is like a dog that dirties the one it loves the most.
If wealth were counted in Heaven as something of value, it would not be given into the hands of such scoundrels.
If you direct your irony against someone, you must be ready to cash it in yourself.
If he keeps his distance from me, I console myself with the idea that my ill-wisher is as far from me as I am from him.
If the number of books and laws increases as it has in the last fifty years, I fear that in the future anyone will be able to be a scholar or a jurist.
There is only one way for a book to appear in the world (as well as its author, by the way), and tens of thousands of ways to leave it forever.
Sometimes it makes sense to live by someone else's mind, but basically you can only rely on your own.
The plot, hatched by some petty minds against a man who enjoys world fame, only confirms the genius of this man.
Laws are like a spider's web in which only the little ones are caught and not bumblebees or wasps.
You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to grow old.
It would seem that lying is such a simple and easy thing, but I have not heard any conversation that, even the most skilled liars, someone managed to lie successfully three times in a row.
How can you believe that humanity is capable of heeding a piece of advice, if its mind is not capable of heeding even a warning?
Just as you can know a man by the society he frequents, so you can know him by the way he expresses himself.
Slander usually strikes the best of men, just as worms attack the best of fruit.