Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again —
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one’s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
In all climates under all skies man’s happiness is always somewhere else.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
It’s not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.