It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinqui...
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make...
Time heals what reason cannot.
You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong i...
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