It is good to be gentle as a lamb; but when there are wolves around you, it's good to be a lion.
In this way to live with other people, so that you will live even when you are no longer alive.
It all depends on the human heart. Pain and joy come from the way he sees things.
Most of us do what most others expect us to do.
Nothing can be considered finished as long as there is something left to do.
In every word you speak, in every deed you perform, you must imagine that there is someone present whom you particularly esteem or love.
Remain simple, good, grave, natural, friend of justice, ... benevolent, friendly, resolved to act as is proper.
I didn't ask life for anything. Everything I had, I ripped them off. And everything I didn't have, he stole from me.
Before you see what others haven't done, take a good look at what you have done.
Protest, but don't whine.
When you take life for granted, it gets in your way.
Take your life. Not to hit her, but to better hear her heart beating.
With time, go in step, not step.
When you're nearing the end of the road, don't think about how far you've come. Just think about how far you have to go.
It's one thing to believe and another to be gullible.
It's one thing to ask, another to beg, and quite another to claim.
True kindness must first be a matter of character and secondly of education.
Don't cry for no reason. And above all, don't cry when you have reason.
When you deserve something, don't ask. Claim.
Man's purpose on earth is work; his duty is temperance; his justice, tolerance and humanity; his glory, his virtue; and its reward, the inner contentment that a reconciled conscience gives you.
Do not judge anyone, but try to understand, / If you want to reach peace and serenity, lean over the pain of the whole world.
Do not reveal the secret of your soul to the wicked. / Fools never tell pain.
What we get too cheap, we estimate too little. Only expensiveness gives a thing its value.
The secret of secrets for a good psychic kinesthesia and for a maximum efflorescence of the personality seems to me to have been discovered in banishing tyrannies of every kind: to banish the yoke of economic needs by restraining unwise appetites; watch over yourself like your child; without nerves, without vehemence, firmly and without harshness, with understanding and lucid eyes.
The continuous comparison of human fate with the infinity of the Cosmos, is the best help against great joy, or too great sadness over earthly things.
I want to go through the world, not sneak out.
Posterity is not an absolute judgment... It is according to the scale of values of its time.
Never forget that you are human.
Man lives, takes a stance, believes in a multiplication of values, hierarchizes them and thus gives meaning to his existence through options that constantly exceed the frontiers of his affective knowledge.
Put justice in your word and the fruits of your deeds. / It is good even in a small thing to keep your right judgment.