We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Information is not knowledge.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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.
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