If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.
The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom.
My happiness should justify existence itself!
The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.
A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.
From things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.
No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Opposition embitters the enthusiast but never converts him.
Man is a sacred thing for Man.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Nature is always too strong for principle.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;
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