The children of Adam are limbs of one another, created from a single essence: when fate afflicts one limb with pain, the other limbs cannot remain at rest.

Do not impose on others what you do not desire for yourself.

Speak such gentle words that they cool the heart: words that give joy to others and leave peace within yourself.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Whoever would be fair, let him imagine himself in his opponent's place; then the face of his own unfairness will become plain to him.

The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you.

Hatred is never stilled by hatred in this world; by love alone is it stilled. This is a law eternal.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.