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.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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.
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.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope.
Music fathoms the sky.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
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