The best ideas are common property.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.
The part of life we really live is small.′ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
Injustice never rules forever.
You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.