Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.