When you hear a boy ask why the sun comes and goes, tell him because in this life there is no light without the dark.

They say, that of all the animals of the creation, the man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.