"I respect the past and I believe in the future; therefore I do not acknowledge the present."Time
"The way to knowledge is through the door of humility."Wisdom
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself."Philosophy
"The man of virtue is the true man."
"It is impossibly hopeful to think we can improve other men."
"All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poison."
"The greatest of all arts is the art of living."Life
"Since the face is the image of the mind, and eyes are its interpreters."Truth
"A friend is a second self."Friendship
"To write is to reveal oneself."Literature
"Children are to be deceived with comfits and men with oaths."Humor
"The loftiest throne in the world is still built on the foundation of the lowly earth."
"Beauty is its own excuse for being."Beauty
"The man who will tell you who rules over you need only tell you who you cannot criticize."Power
"To forbid us anything is to make us want it."
"A man must make his own character; he must overcome obstacles, the greatest of which is himself."
"When you are old, you realize that plot counts for little compared to the author's usual competence."Wisdom
"The greater the mind, the greater the possibility for error."Knowledge
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."Peace
"The most certain mark of wisdom is cheerfulness."Wisdom
"One should not take life so seriously to the point where one loses the will to live."Happiness
"A man can be whatever he wills to be, if he will to be."
"The world is all that is the case."Philosophy
"He who does not improve his understanding is like a river that stops flowing."Education
"Your death is but the beginning of your immortality."
"To speak good words without doing good deeds is like painting the sepulchre."
"There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to do now."
"The world breaks everyone; afterward many are strong at the broken places."
"A man is called wise who measures himself according to the truth."Wisdom
"Fear creates more phantoms than existence ever produced."Fear