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.
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.
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.
Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.
The self-control of the father is the greatest example for the children.
A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.
Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.
All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.
Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
The stars of your destiny are in your heart.
I accept the great adventure of being me.
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