Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Certain signs precede certain events.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.