Quotes

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

There is no shame in being happy.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

How little it takes to be happy, and a hundred times less to suffer forever.

Many people complain that their whole life goes by in searching for the meaning of life, which, if it exists at all, lies nowhere else but in the search itself.

The more you think about life, the more its ambushes open up and its pathless wastes appear.

All philosophy is sad. If you talk about happiness for long, you will end up feeling a little unhappy.

And wishing to hide from shame, I drink, and wish that I were drunk for ever; then I do not see vice, a society steeped in gloom, then I do not even see the shame that I too am a man.