Life & Aging Sayings

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and what is to their advantage.

When a people is lazy, it attributes everything to fortune.

The wealth of a country consists, not in its gold and silver only, but in its lands, houses, and consumable goods of all different kinds.

The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason.

I perceive that, when an old garment is taken off, the new is not yet put on.

The first requisite of all history is the production of the means to satisfy these needs, the production of material life itself.

The aim of all life is to find pleasure and avoid pain.

Life calls us to change, and it is a painful process.

The only good thing in life is to be happy.

I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman.

The age of reason is the age of experiment.

The quickest way to make your life better is to stop doing the things you know are wrong.

We are now designing not just tools, but life itself.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

The sage is born without a body, and yet he can walk without stepping.

The sage is the instructor of a hundred generations. When the sage hears that he is still remembered, he is pleased.

The sage is the model for all mankind.

O blind greed, and foolish mortals' minds, that spur you on in life with such desire!

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.