Echoes

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.

For in all adversity of fortune, the most unfortunate kind of misfortune is to have been happy.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

There is no man in the world free from trouble or anguish, though he were King or Pope.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

I have heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

Those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we sometimes endure contradictions, and are hardly and unfairly judged, when we do and mean what is good. For these things help us to be humble, and shield us from vain-glory.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.