The years teach much which the days never know.
The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.
In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Few men have been admired by their own households.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Man is what he eats.
Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.
How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow: Gather today the roses of life.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
I is another.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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