Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do...within the limits of his comprehension.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Faith is hidden household capital.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Let us live, while we are alive.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Who is the happiness of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
If god had wanted me otherwise, He world have created me otherwise.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Life's objective is life itself.
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
A useless life is an early death.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own way, perfect.
Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she given us greater courage.
It is in self - limitation that a master first shows himself.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, must overestimate his capacities.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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