The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

A hundred suspicions don't make proof.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

The soul is healed by being with children.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.