The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
If you want to be happy, be.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The most important time is Now
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
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