What a person has in themselves is the most important thing for their happiness in life.
Can man be equated with the rest of creation?
The present alone is true and real: it is the truly fulfilled time, and our existence lies exclusively in it.
A lie is self-defense against unauthorized curiosity.
As pleasures increase, susceptibility to them decreases. We no longer perceive as a pleasure what we are used to.
All understanding is an act of imagining.
From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; from the standpoint of old age, a very short past.
Any stupid person can crush a beetle, but all the professors in the world can’t make one.
Whoever expects the world to have devils with horns and fools with bells will always be their prey or their game.
You don’t have much more in the world than the choice between loneliness and meanness.
By virtue of his education, a person does not say not what he thinks, but what others have thought and what he has learned.
Wealth is like sea water: the more you drink of it, the thirstier you become.
Sleep is to man what winding is to the clock.
When you are old, you face death; but when you are young you have the life ahead of you: I don’t know which of the two is scarier.
The origin of all war, however, is the desire to steal.
To set much too high a value on other people’s opinion is a common error everywhere.
Every possession and every happiness is only lent to us for an indefinite time.
Because anyone who has tasted seriousness will no longer enjoy fun, especially of the boring kind.
It is easy to offend people, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to make them better.
The safest way to avoid becoming very unhappy is not demanding to be very happy.
A hypothesis that has been formulated gives us lynx eyes for everything that confirms it and blinds us to everything that contradicts it.
Only when you are alone are you free: pressure is the inseparable companion of society.
In fact, the purpose of our existence is nothing other than the realization that we should better not exist.
The content of history is the European brawls.
You shall use ordinary words and say unusual things.
With the same environment, everyone lives in a different world.
We should open the door to cheerfulness whenever it comes, because it never comes at the wrong time.
The presence of a thought is like the presence of a lover.
Dilettantes who practice art out of love and joy are looked down upon with contempt; On the other hand, one honors the professionals who deal with it for the purpose of earning money.
The importance of the present is rarely recognized immediately, but only much later.
Your own advantage completely distorts the judgment.
Every evening we are one day poorer.
A scholar is someone who has learned a lot; a genius someone from whom humanity learns what he has learned from no one.
Loneliness is the destiny of all excellent minds.
Recanting a false view requires more character than defending it.
Truth is always granted only a short victory celebration between the two long periods of time in which it is underestimated as paradoxical and trivial.
Politeness is like a cushion of air: there may not be much in it, but it softens the shocks of life.
We should always remember that today comes only once and never again. But we believe that it will come back; However, tomorrow is another day that only comes once as well.
So the need of society, arising from the emptiness and monotony of one’s own inner being, drives people towards one another; but their many disgusting qualities and intolerable faults repel them from each other.
Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
It would be good to buy books if you could buy the time to read them together with them, but people often confuse buying books with learning their contents.
We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we accept without objection.
True, deep peace of heart and complete tranquility of mind can only be found in solitude.
Ever since I got to know people, I have loved animals.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Those who do not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
To free a man from error is not to take something from him, but to give him something.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
