“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.

Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

Consequence is no coincidence.