“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Difficulty shows what men are.

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Only the educated are free.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.

Every night I’ll kiss you you’ll say in my ear, Oh we’re in love aren’t we?

The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Art speaks to me through you but words have no ears.

I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

Our only limitation is that we only believe what is visible to our eyes and audible to our ears.