Never is done tomorrow what is not done today And one should let no day slip by. With resolution seize the possible straightway By forelock and with quick, courageous trust; Then holding fast you will not let it further fly And you will labour on because you must.
What goes against the heart, the head does not let in.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Let there be truth between us.
Where there is no love there is also no truth.
The present is big with the future; the future could be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the near.
Like the disputes of lovers are the dissonances of the world. Reconciliation is there, even in the midst of strife, and all that is parted finds itself united again.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.
Trust is courage, loyalty is strength.
If you want to be happy, be.
The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
There is only one proof of ability: doing it.
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
All the arts are like mirrors in which the human beings know and recognize something of themselves they ignored.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.
Truly there is no wise man. Who does not know the dark.
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.
Some reasonings are stronger than we are.
At the heart of my revolt lay consent.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.
Where nature is lacking, work supplies.
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