In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose. I can always choose, but I must know that if I do not choose, that is still a choice.
Man is condemned to be free.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
It is impossible for society to exist without laws.
Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
To live without loving is not really to live.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
There is something real in ideas, through which the true are distinguished from the false.
He who can, does. He who can't, teaches.
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
The world and life are one.
Language can also be compared with a sheet of paper: thought is the front and the sound the back; one cannot cut the front with out cutting the back at the same time; likewise in language, one can neither divide sound from thought nor thought from sound;
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together;
Men press towards the light, not so as to see better, but so as to shine better.
Those Greeks were superficial – out of profundity!
Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.
For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
To understand is, above all, to unify.
Virtue will not be followed but for herself; and, if we sometimes borrow her mask for some other occasion, she presently pulls it off again.
Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Nature does not make jumps.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Hours were made for man, not man for hours.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further.
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