The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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