Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Silenceis the mother of truth.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.