No man is weak by choice.
Man is the future of man.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?
Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
I am rich in the goods that I can do without.
Love truth, but pardon error.
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What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Know or listen to those who know.
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Have courage to use your own reason!
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Perhaps peace is more than happiness.
The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.
What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
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