The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Resist much. Obey little.

The object of the superior man is truth.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.