It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
By seeking and blundering we learn.