The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.