To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Today must not borrow from tomorrow.