Lying is the most harmful of sins.
Better to learn a hundred years than to remain uneducated all your life.
Better to find justification in ten guilty than to blame one innocent.
Love of country, shame and fear of being vilified are powerful means of suppressing many crimes.
People themselves are often the cause of their happiness and unhappiness.
Trivial rules and pitiful subtleties should not have access to your heart.
Man should not be ashamed to admit his mistake.
Never allow flatterers to trouble you: let them know you like neither praise nor backbiting.
Show your confidence only to him who has the courage to oppose you, and who prefers you for your fame and not for your mercy.
The rules of education are the first steps that prepare us to become citizens.
The rose is the mother of boredom and many other vices.
After overcoming a difficulty, man feels satisfied.
Winners are not judged.
Sometimes a conversation with an ignoramus teaches us more than a conversation with some scholars.
A man with a mind will always find an occupation.
A wise man is not ashamed to learn in his old age what he did not learn in his youth.
Improving the methods of education is the best and also the most difficult way to make people better.
If you do someone a favor, you do it yourself.
Do good for the sake of good, and not for the sake of praise or gratitude. The good done is itself a reward.
To bear in the soul something that another cannot bear is to have a hard heart, but to do good that another could not do is a thing of praise.
Consciousness is an inner, hidden light that illuminates man exclusively and speaks softly to him; gently touching the soul, awakens the feelings in it, and follows the man everywhere without a trace of mercy.
A difficulty is overcome by work.
Science is an ornament to the happy man and a refuge to the unhappy.
Keep in your heart those remarkable qualities of soul which are the distinguishing feature of the honest man, the remarkable man, and the hero. Beware of any kind of artificiality. Let the poison of vulgarity not darken in your heart the ever-present taste for honor and bravery.
Even a man of mediocre mind can be skilled, if he makes an effort.
The good-hearted man tries to turn every thing and every activity into something good; The evil-hearted man tries to find evil in something good.
If you see your neighbor's vices, do not show yours by judging his.
Man has different aspirations and abilities, and everyone's purpose is to develop his abilities to the extent possible.
All individuals belonging to the human species differ from one another; only one thing makes them alike, namely their ultimate goal - perfection.
The state and all human institutions, which are only a means, tend to their own destruction: the purpose of all government is to make government superfluous. All reality is active, and all that is active is real. We do not act as a result of knowledge, but know because we are meant to act.