It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
The color of truth is gray.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.
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