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.
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.
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