Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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.
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