Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

What can't be cured must be endured.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

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

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.