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.
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.
To forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil.
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.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
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