Love & Life Sayings

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I am the most terrible animal that’s ever existed.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen.

The earth laughs in flowers.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

As long as the individual is not free, he cannot truly love.

It is difficult to imagine how many of those who love liberty, and who sincerely desire it, are yet ready to give it up at the first alarm.

If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The environment not only goads or releases, it selects.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Man is the most intelligent of animals – and the most foolish.