If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
Do not try to seem wise to others.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss..
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
