Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.