“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
“Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be and no one yet knows what it will be.”
“Take life lightly, for lightness is not superficial, but glides above things.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“Wise men learn by others' harms.”
“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
“Grasp the subject, words will follow.”
“Carthage must be destroyed.”
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
“The man who seeks to educate himself must first learn how to doubt.”
“I have always loved women; I have never loved one of them.”
“Love is three quarters curiosity.”
“Be the flame, not the moth.”
“Advice is like snow—the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”