The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Time is the best killer.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
In the end, everything is a gag.
