“The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.”

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.