To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
To perceive is to suffer.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Wit is educated insolence.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.