1. “If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
2. “It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.”
3. “An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”
4. “How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.”
5. “We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.”
6. “The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.”
7. “Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”
8. “We possess only the happiness we able to understand.”
9. “To be happy is only to have freed one’s soul from the unrest of unhappiness.”
10. “It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.”
11. “Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.”
12. “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”
13. “To disdain today is to prove that yesterday had been misunderstood.”
14. “An act of goodness is of itself an act of kindness.”
15. “Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.”
16. “Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.”
17. “All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.”
18. “We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.”
19. “It’s good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.”
20. “Justice is the very last thing of all where with the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.”
21. “There is no soul that does not respond to love, for soul of man is a guest tat has gone hungry these centuries back.”
22. “He who see without loving is only straining his eyes in darkness.”
23. “Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.”
24. “It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.”
25. “The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.”
26. “Men’s weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.”
27. “It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.”
28. “What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.”
29. “The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.”
30. “The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.”
