The only way to want, is to act.
Nothing is ours, except time.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Truth and clarity are complementary.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
If you see a great master, you will always find that he used what was good in his predecessors, and that it was this which made him great.
Man is neither good nor bad, he is born with instincts and aptitudes.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
It's never too late, but it's always high time.
Health is the primary duty of life.
The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Humor has no aim; irony always has an idea behind it.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
One should be good, or else imitate the one who is good.
Man is born for pleasure; he feels it; no other proof of it is needed.
Festina lente is a royal motto.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.
A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
What is past is prologue.
The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
Passion makes a man live; wisdom only makes him last!
For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
To philosophize is to think rather than to know, to question rather than to explain.
Virtue is in the heart, and nowhere else.
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