To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.
it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Music serves for diversion, for education, for the stimulation of mind and heart, and for the liberation of the soul from the passions.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear a truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We cannot change the wind, but we can set the sails differently.
And therefore justice is often thought to be the greatest of virtues, and ‘neither evening nor morning star’ is so wonderful; and proverbially ‘in justice is every virtue comprehended’.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
There is only one way to avoid criticism…do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
True friendship is love for the other, for the sake of the other.
