Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I am resolved to struggle against everything and everybody.

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.