Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.
We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
The moderation of those who are happy arises from the calm which good fortune bestows upon their temper.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.
He who is silent is taken to agree.
All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
The will of man is his happiness.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
He who hath many friends hath none.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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