Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.