One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Love is being stupid together.
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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