There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours