Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
He that can have patience can have what he will.
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