The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.
The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.
Doubt always arises from the fact that things are investigated without order.
Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.
The Sage will bear the name of insane, and the Just the name of unjust, if in their search for Virtue they go beyond what is sufficient.
The passions have taught men reason.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
I went in search of myself.
The perfect does not lie in quantity but in quality.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than does folly.
The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.
A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
Man is nothing but the series of his acts.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Those who think they no longer need the help of others become deaf to reason.
The source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
Rembrandt - The Philosopher in Meditation (on Wikipedia)
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
I was brought up by a library.
Reason misleads us more often than nature.
Truth is the sun of intelligence.
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