It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
The color of truth is gray.
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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