Don't let what is small rule what is noble in you. - Stoicism
Before we ardently desire something, we must first examine the happiness of the person who possesses it.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
What exactly is man? I don't know and I don't want to know, I'm angry with those who know. What the man is I don't know. I only know the price of it.
Bertolt Brecht
Due to the need for recollection, I got rid of God, I got rid of the last annoying thing.
Emil Cioran
Try to be as kind to your wife as you were when you conquered her.
Julio Dantas
The same evil that we possess within ourselves is that which we possess more severely in others.
Theodor Hippel