The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.