Don’t say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You’ll never catch up with a mere hope.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish them.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.