Art of Wisdom

“If someone is really dear to you, hide it from them as if it were a crime, it is not nice, but it is right.”

“People are like children who become cheeky when they are forgiven, so they are not treated softly and affectionately.”

“It takes more character to retract a wrong opinion than to defend it.”

“A man's love visibly diminishes after he has reached saturation. Every woman who comes his way is more attractive to him than the one he has already obtained.”

“The qualities a woman expects from a man are qualities she cannot give to her own child.”

“Those who say that money can make you happy are probably the ones who have never had enough money to realize that this is not true.”

“Most people would be horrified if they could see another person as they really are.”

“People run after happiness, but they forget that peace is the main thing.”

“People who don't have light in them try to blend in with the crowd and get light.”

“Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you didn't choose.”

“It is enough to look at the appearance of women to realize that they are not made for great things, whether mental or physical.”

“A man with a rich inner world will retreat into his own corner, and even if he is a great head, he will choose solitude.”

“There are three kinds of aristocracy; the first is age and seniority, the second is wealth, the third is intellect and knowledge. The last is the most honorable.”

“The greatest legacy I will leave my children is that they will never exist.”

“If the world becomes so honest that it cannot teach religion to children under fifteen, then perhaps we can have hope in it.”

“He who does not love loneliness does not love freedom. For one is only free when one is alone.”

“The rabble are all social people. Because sociability is based on fear of loneliness, not love of people.”

“We have an innate flaw as human beings. We all think we came into this world to be happy.”

“The attempt to impose love breeds hatred in love, and the attempt to impose religion breeds hatred in religion.”

“Happiness is for the self-sufficient.”

“The source of all love, no matter how high and sublime it may seem, is the sexual instinct.”

“It is better to be illiterate if one can do nothing else but read and write.”

“To marry is to do everything possible to ensure that two people become disgusting objects for each other.”

“The common man is eager to seek splendor and happiness in weddings, parties and balls. But the wise man, who is self-sufficient, finds true splendor alone within four walls.”

“Let this, then, always be our motto: It is better to be alone than among traitors.”

“The root of human love is participation in another's pain and suffering; in the last analysis, again, compassion.”

“In solitude, a clever man has excellent entertainment for his thoughts and imagination.”

“The more we are in the world, the more the world is in us, the source of all reality lies within us.”

“The happiest man is the man who is able to appreciate himself sincerely, in whatever way he can.”

“Would the human race really want to continue to exist if this business of bringing children into the world were a purely intellectual affair and not something accompanied by bodily pleasure?

“Almost everything that is considered right by society is wrong.”

“Compassion is the foundation of morality.”

“Man can be himself to the extent that he is alone; if he does not like solitude, he will not like freedom. For it is only when one is alone that one is truly free.”

“Every man recognizes the limits of his own field of vision as the limits of the world.”

“There is only one misconception we are born with. And that is that we think we are here to be happy.”

“Behave in such a way that your behavior is a measure for the behavior of others.”