Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

What other people think of me is not my business.

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.