Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
