A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
We are both of us neighbors of the sky, Madame, Since you are beautiful and I am old.
Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
The rest belongs to the music as well.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
We are of our childhood as we are from a country.
Healthy is who can't recall.
Truth must gain ground without violence.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Your own senses you shall think to the end!
Live out your life without restraint in entire gladness even if all men shout what they please against you.
The beginnings of all things are small.
The eyes cannot know the nature of things.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.
Opponents often need each other more than friends, for without wind, the mills won't run.
Unless the vessel be sweet, whatever you pour into it turns sour.
Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.
Direct your thought to what is being said. Let your mind gain an entrance into what is occurring and who is producing it.
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