What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
My reputation grows with every failure.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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