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Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing less than his life.






Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.






Time softens everything.






Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.






Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.






In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.






The dream is stronger than experience.






The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.






Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.






A hundred motives compel me to be always in love.






True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.






We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.






Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.






This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.






Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.






Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.






The world is everything that is the case.






Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.






Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.






Change alone is unchanging.






You cannot find peace by avoiding life.






We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.






Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.






Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.






The pleasure from hard effort is the sweetest.






It is foolish to fear what cannot be avoided.






Reason, not age, finds wisdom.






Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease.






It is not goodness to be better than the worst.






A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.










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