If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.