“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well
“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does