There exists no more difficult art than living.
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
True love can fear no one.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed.
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you.
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
What you think is the summit is only a step up.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.