No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.