“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Philosophy can make people sick.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

People keep changing colours time and again. Today your words have so much value and you stress for their opinion, tomorrow you don’t even exist to them.

In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world – a pure race doesn’t exist.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.