My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
Beware of spitting against the wind!
All the world's a stage.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf.
To devote one's life to the truth.
Great artists have no country.
Anger is a short madness.
A picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.
If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.
The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.
So that the possible emerges, the impossible must be tried again and again.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
He who has but a moment to live, Has no longer anything to dissemble.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
And wisdom in life is perhaps to ask for anything, why?
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?
An idea is a meteor.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far you can go too far.
Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
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