Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.