Stupidity is without anxiety.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
Everyone only hears what he understands.
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
We must be young to do great things.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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