The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.