The world is everything that is the case.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Change alone is unchanging.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.
Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.
The pleasure from hard effort is the sweetest.
It is foolish to fear what cannot be avoided.
Reason, not age, finds wisdom.
Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
By forgiving much the mighty becomes even mightier.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
To avoid covetousness is to conquer a kingdom.
By pondering, wisdom is learned.
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.
Truth does not do as much good in the world, as its counterfeits do evil.
There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.
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