1.By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.

2.A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

3.Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

4.Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

5.Boredom: the desire for desires.

6.He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

7.Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

8.If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

9.We lost because we told ourselves we lost.