The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Dare to be yourself.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
The color of truth is gray.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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