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

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

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.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.

The whole fruit is already present in the seed.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.