The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

No one but a fool is always right.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.