Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Talent is shaped in tranquility; Character in the stream of life.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Action is character.
How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
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.
Philosophy belongs to no one.
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.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Man is, before all else, something which propels itself towards a future and is aware that it is doing so.
Do not call yourself poor because your dreams were not ful-filled; truly poor is the one who never dreamed.
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
In a great soul everything is great.
The really great men in the history of the world have all either known how to meditate or have unconsciously found their way to the place to which meditation leads us.
The opposite of falsehood is not truth, but doubt.
There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles, and be moving continually to what is right;—this is the way to exalt one's virtue.
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason...
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