“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Be as you wish to seem.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

When I’m faded I forget, I forget what you mean to me. I hope you know what you mean to me.

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Each moment that passes changes you. You can’t even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.