Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.
Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible.
The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.
Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You want peace: create love.
Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.
The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind.
From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
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.
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.
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