“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.”

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

There is no solution; seek it lovingly.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.