“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

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

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.

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.

Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Attachment gives birth to expectations.

I am more than this skin I am in, And once you see that, we all win.

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

He is the epitome of wildflower, growing with no one to care.

Sometimes I wonder, do the trees get sad when they see leaves fell?

A speaker of truth has no friends.

Sometimes silence is the only answer.