Quotes

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Things do not change; we change.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Simplify, simplify.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,