Happiness is an unchanging state inaccessible to man in this world. Everything on this earth is incessant motion that does not allow anyone to take a constant form. Everything is changing around us. And we ourselves change, and no one can be sure that tomorrow he will like what he likes today. Therefore, all our thoughts of happiness in this world prove to be chimeras.
Just as the first step to good is to do no harm, the first step to happiness is to try not to suffer.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
A thousand roads lead astray; to the truth - only one.
Legislative works are difficult not by ascertaining some facts, but by removing the causes that conditioned them.
Loneliness awakens a love of people and a keen interest in them.
Insulting is something very convenient: you can attack with the help of a single word, but you need whole pages to defend.
An hour of work will teach you more than a day of explanations.
Man is very strong when he is content with what he has and very weak when he tries to rise above mankind.
Boundless joy causes tears rather than laughter.
To live in virtue, we must constantly fight with ourselves.
I know no greater enemy of men than the "friend of all," who, being constantly excited about everything, praises the wicked at once, and encourages with his criminal indulgence the vices that give rise to disorders in society.
The language of reason will be heard if it passes through the heart.
Gratitude suffers from amnesia.
There is often deep meaning in children's play.
In the images of his gods, man draws his own portrait.
One bad deed carries within itself the roots of new bad deeds.
Great souls endure in silence.
Faithful love helps you endure all hardships.
The will is a distinctive feature of the human race, and reason is the norm by which the will is controlled.
All that our soul feels in the form of vague, ambiguous sensations, the theater offers us in strong words and bright images, the force of which amazes us.
The history of the world is the tribunal of the world.
All immorality arises from a conflict between good and pleasant, between passions and reason - and has as its source the strength of sensory impulses and the weakness of the moral will.
He is a fool who leaves the job half-done, and then, with his mouth agape, waits to see what will happen next.
Woe to me if my beliefs changed according to my heartbeats.
A dilettante takes the dark for deep, the wild for strong, the indeterminate for infinite, the meaningless for supersensible.
For good actors there are no bad roles.
Dignity expresses the spirit's resistance to instinct.
Worthy thoughts strengthen a man's heart and do not fear the light of day.
Friendship is not some kind of pitiful lighter to be extinguished by parting.