Time wounds all heels.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.