The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
My art and profession is to live.”
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.