We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

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.

The Earth must have done some noble work

The only true wisdom is in knowing that, with love, you can win the world.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.