“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

There is no genius without a touch of madness.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.

And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.

To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.