For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
So as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis'.
Although logos is common to all, most people live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.
© Hans Jürgen Heringer
This is how philosophers should greet each other: 'Take your time!'
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Today, we are truly a global family. What happens in one part of the world may affect us all. This, of course, is not only true of the negative things that happen, but is equally valid for the positive developments.
Men depend on fame and honor to the exact extent that they are not sure of having succeeded.
Oh, how I am tired of the struggle!
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.
To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
Light cares speak out, the weighty have no words.
Cold things warm up, the hot cools off, wet becomes dry, dry becomes wet.
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
The world is nothing but variety and dissimilarity.
But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.
Men are as the time is.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
No need to be praised when you are sure of yourself. He who seeks praise doubts his own worth.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way
Anything that increases freedom increases responsibility.
Geometry, is not concerned with the relation of the ideas involved in it to objects of experience, but only with the logical connection of these ideas among themselves.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
All the good are friends of one another.
It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not so constituted as to create our judgements upon them.
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