Life is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always upon her shoulders.
Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Man is not born, but made man.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.
All the world's a stage.
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.
Words make love.
It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.
So many men, so many opinions.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
To love is to will the good of the other.
Where words fail, music speaks.
We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Money often costs too much.
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