In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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