One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

A precedent embalms a principle.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.