No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...” 

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

“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."

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.” 

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."