Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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.
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