Historical Wisdom

...although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned too.

Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.

It is always now.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Don’t leave spontaneity to chance.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, The way to be happy is to make others so.

Living well is the best revenge.

Anytime you learn your time and energy is not wasted.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time