If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.