In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.

My heart shattered. My world shattered