“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Leap and the net will appear.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.