There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.