Classroom of the Elite

What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness.

It takes a great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Hell is other people.

There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other concerns a future duty.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Man is condemned to be free.

Every man has in himself the most dangerous traitor of all.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Genius lives only one story above madness.

Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.

The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The material has to be created.

Every failure is a step to success.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

People, often deceived by an illusive good, desire their own ruin.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Man is wolf to man.

Man never forgets what he wants to forget.

To work you have the right, but not to the fruits thereof.

Fortune favors the bold.