You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Desire is the very essence of man.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.