The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.