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.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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.
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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.
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