It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Beware of a man of one book.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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