- "Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."
- "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
- "To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."
- "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
- "The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."
- "The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
- "The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."
- "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- "Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
- "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
- "In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
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