“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.