"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child"

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"

"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor"