“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Happiness comes from doing the things that set your soul free.

Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.

Swallow darkness lock and throw away the key. Don’t allow it to ruin the sweet melody.

You left me speechless I’m glad you did because I appreciate every minute of it.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.