Accurst be he that first invented war.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it.

Suffering by nature or chance 

never seems so painful as 

suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

No one who has lived 

even for a fleeting moment 

for something other than life in its conventional sense 

and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces 

can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

When I recall today my early youth, 

I should take the boy that I then was, 

with the exception of a few individual features, 

for a different person, 

were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, 

and turning over the great book of nature 

(which is the proper object of philosophy) 

is the way to elevate one's gaze.

When I investigate 

and when I discover 

that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, 

then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Because things are the way they are, 

things will not stay the way they are.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

There is a wisdom of the head, 

and a wisdom of the heart.

If honour were profitable, 

everybody would be honourable.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. 

Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, 

the dangers to our safety 

arising from political suppression 

are always greater than 

the dangers to the safety 

resulting from political freedom. 

Suppression is always foolish. 

Freedom is always wise.