One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.
When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.
Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.
Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.
Philosophy gives life to life.
Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemis...