Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Every movement reveals us.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
آدمی از هیجانات سوزان، ناگزیر به تب های سوزان می جهد
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite s...
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
We need but little learning to live happily.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.