Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Things do not lay hold of the soul.
A blind man is, he who shuts the eye of the mind.
Melody gives a sensible existence to poetry.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
What is your aim in Philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
In the middle is the safest path.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Talent is shaped in tranquility; Character in the stream of life.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Action is character.
If you suffer pain because of some external cause, what troubles you is not the thing but your decision about it.
No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.
Is it not peculiar that a literal translation is almost always a terrible one? And yet, anything can be translated well. One sees here what it really means to understand fully a language; it means to understand fully the people who speak it.
That is, I only know the truth when it becomes a life in me.
Does, then, the truly beautiful need anything beyond ?
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
I have now what Universal Nature wills me to have, and I do what my own nature wills me to do.
Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.
You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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