Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
