I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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