Institutions - government churches industries and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail on the whole to perform this function they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave...
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough...
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere...
