Act as if you are, and you will become such.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.