There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Life must be lived as play.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.