From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. |
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. |
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. |
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. |
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. |
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. |
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. |
He is the richest who is content with the least |
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have |
How many are the things I can do without! |
How much there is in the world I do not want |
I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world |
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. |
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. |
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. |