If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The lie is a condition of life.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
