I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk