“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

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.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.

My heart is just to express what has helped me with love.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.