What can't be cured must be endured.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.