Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Time is flying never to return.

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

Take it from me, its hip to be square.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.