Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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