Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Popularity – a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it’s fate are people.
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
The rich’s paradise was created by the poor’s hell.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.