Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
The most important time is Now
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
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.
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