I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.
The necessity of pursuing true Happiness is the foundation of liberty.
Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Dogs bark at those they don't know.
Sowing is not so hard as reaping.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it.
Change is always a pleasant thing.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
The ignoble nature is distinguished by the fact that it keeps its advantage steadily in view, and that this thought of the end and advantage is even stronger than its strongest impulse.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
It is not love we should have painted blind, but self-love.
So that power may not be abused, it is necessary that, through the way in which things are arranged, power may check power.
The contempt of our nature is an error of our reason.
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