True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.