It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
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.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
The color of truth is gray.
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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.
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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