The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. - Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.