Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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!
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
