"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long if you know how to use it."
Time
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life
"True happiness is to enjoy your time without guilt."
Happiness
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants and contented mind."
Money
"It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress."
Strength
"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Life
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms you'll make use of them when you're older."
Inspiration
"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."
Kindness
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Wisdom
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Perseverance
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Life
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."
Happiness
"The time that makes others wise makes me mad."
Wisdom
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Money
"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
"Even from a bad person, one can always learn something."
Education
"Everybody agrees that no one wants to suffer. But do you see anyone who would willingly accept a life of inactivity and laziness."
Work
"The person who says it is not possible should not interrupt the person doing it."
Perseverance
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Fear
"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
Friendship
"True liberty is freedom from fear."
Freedom
"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."
Motivation
"Confine yourself to the present."
Time
"You are an old child if you do not weep."
"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything that feeds it."
Strength
"The fool is always starting life over again."
Wisdom
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
Leadership
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
Strength
"Poverty is the mother of crime."
Justice
"There is one thing that will never betray you—that is nature."
Nature