“I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.”

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

The world wants to be deceived.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

He has gone over to the majority.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

What power has law where only money rules?

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.