Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Desire is the very essence of man.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Intelligence is a moral category.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
