Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
