Happiness is the ultimate goal of our pursuits.
Only in a strong and healthy body does the spirit keep its balance and the character develops in all its greatness.
The purpose of education is to form a being capable of leading himself, and not a being that can only be led by others.
Mankind has evolved only on the path of self-education, and in order to achieve the best results, each individual mind must develop on the same path: this state of affairs is constantly demonstrated by the extraordinary successes of self-educated people.
Evolution cannot end except by the attainment of supreme perfection and complete happiness.
Marriage is a long conversation, punctuated by arguments.
Maybe fate is kinder to the one who likes to collect seashells than to the one who was born a millionaire...
Memories are a magical cloak that does not wear out with use.
It is much better to be ruined by a reckless nephew than to be fed by a grumpy uncle.
Let's agree to disagree.
Kindness and humility: these are two qualities that should never tire people.
If your moral principles make you melancholic, know that your moral principles do not make money.
If a man does not like a certain activity, it is unpleasant, it is not obligatory and it is, in fact, useless, then ... the sooner he abandons it, the better it will be for him and for everyone that have anything to do with that activity.
Let's face it, the most vigorous, significant and noble roles in the Theater of Life are played by amateur actors and cause the viewer only a lazy yawn.
Desire and curiosity are two eyes that magically transform the world.
For money we are bound to pay the price of our freedom.
It is legitimate to pray to God not to let us fall into temptation, but it is not legitimate to run away from those temptations that visit us.
Walking through life, we suddenly find the ice beneath our feet growing thinner and thinner, and we see around and behind us our generational peers crumbling under it.
The lion is the king of animals, but unlikely to make a good domestic animal. Likewise, love is too strong a feeling to become the basis of a happy marriage.
Literature, in all its forms, is nothing but the shadow of a good conversation.
There is only one difference between a good lunch and a long life, namely that at lunch dessert is served at the end.
The world is boring for boring people.
There is no obligation that we underestimate so much as the obligation to be happy.
Monuments are erected to all things that are least memorable.
Almost every man, if you are to take his word for it, holds beliefs completely different from those that guide him in life.
The cruelest lie is often told in silence.
The darkest age is today...
The most alien are the aliens who live among us.
Judge the day that has passed not by the fruit you have reaped, but by the seeds you have sown.
A thing you are not sorry for is not lost.