Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Some reckon books by the thickness, as if they were written to try the brawn more than the brain.
Think with the Few and speak with the Many.
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence “Two times two is four.”
Cheerfulness is created for men through moderation of enjoyment and harmoniousness of life. Things that are in excess or lacking are apt to change and cause great disturbance in the soul.
Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
Nobody can build you the bridge over which you must cross the river of life, nobody but you alone.
All that glisters is not gold.
Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.
Form is the substance which rises to the surface.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
It is better to deliberate before action than to repent afterwards.
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.
The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
The greatest people are those who can give hope to others.
Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.
The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
He who loves glory thinks the activity of another to be his own good; he who loves pleasure thinks his own feeling to be his good; he who has intelligence, thinks his own action to be his good.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere…
That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.
It requires management to enjoy life.
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