I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Man is the shepherd of Being.
Observe what your nature requires of you.
Everything that is profound loves the mask.
Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Sleep is the best meditation.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Things do not change we change.
Advise your friends in private, praise them openly.
It is a brief refusal when the wise man meets a request with silence.
Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.
Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.
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A plan that cannot be changed is a bad one.
Where there is unity, there lies victory.
Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.
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