One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.