Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
He who is brave is free.
All art is but imitation of nature.
