Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
He who thinks little, errs much.
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The superior man seeks to perfect the admirable qualities of men, and does not seek to perfect their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of this.
Many who have not learnt Reason, nevertheless live according to reason.
Another's wrong act you must leave where it is.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
Silence is the great revelation.
He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
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.
Do not try to understand everything, lest you become ignorant of everything.
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.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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.
Pride, a magnanimous passion, is not blind to personal failings, but arrogance is so.
Man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
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.
The impulses of the passions cause prudence to slip, and there is the risk of ruin.
In hearing litigations, I am like any other body. What is necessary, however, is to cause the people to have no litigations.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
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