Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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