Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
