It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.