Silence is the wit of fools.
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: