Quotes

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

The wise man aims at freedom from pain, not at pleasure.

We let our pleasant days slip by unnoticed; only when bad days come do we wish the others back.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The greatest amount of knowledge, if it has not been worked over by one’s own thinking, is worth much less than a far smaller amount that has been thoroughly thought through.

Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity!

Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Truth can wait, for it has a long life before it.

Compassion for all living beings is the surest guarantee of right moral conduct.

Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.