Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Hope is a waking dream.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?” 

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.” 

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” 

“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.” 

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."

"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."

"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."

“Happiness” means mainly a sense of deep satisfaction. The object of life or our goal, then, is satisfaction.

We need to discover not only what disturbs our minds, but also what the antidotes to those factors are.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.