Do not attend to only be absent.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Do not love half-lovers.
Do not entertain half-friends.
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
If you can't explain it simply,
You don't understand it well enough.
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
When you come to the end of your rope,
Tie a knot and hang on.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Science is the father of knowledge,
But opinion breeds ignorance.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
No act of kindness,
No matter how small,
Is ever wasted.
The gods will invite me in.
In death there is no sighing.
The hours of life have passed.
Laughing shall I die.
Between what is said and not meant,
And what is meant and not said,
Most of love is lost.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
I disapprove of what you say,
But I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The impediment to action advances action.
What stands in the way becomes the way.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
And wiser people so full of doubts.
A gem cannot be polished without friction,
Nor a man perfected without trials.
I want to sing like the birds sing,
Not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
It is time to pause and reflect.
You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
It is not events that disturb people.
It is their judgments concerning them.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames.
Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want.
Welcome events in whichever way they happen.
This is the path to peace.
You have power over your mind,
Not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength.
In silence there is eloquence.
Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots.
I never think of the future.
It comes soon enough.
Without data,
You are just another person with an opinion.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life
depend on the labors of other men,
Living and dead,
And that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure
as I have received and am still receiving.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,
The abyss will gaze back into you.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Every man of action is a strong dose of egoism,
Pride,
Hardness,
And cunning.
But all those things will be regarded as high qualities
if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Do not choose bad friends.
Do not choose persons of low habits.
Select good friends.
Be discriminating.
Choose the best.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself.
Lying to others is relatively an exception.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities.
In the expert's mind there are few.
There are no facts,
Only interpretations.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
