Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Remember that credit is money.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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