My trade and art is to live.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
My life is my message.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Don't forget to love yourself.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
The word flies and cannot be recalled.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.
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