The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it’s supposed to be.
To be is to do.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
Be as you wish to seem.