There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.