The happiness of mankind lies in working together, in living as if each individual had set himself the task of contributing to the common welfare.
To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.
Peace starts with each one of us.
Sincerity is contagious.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Passing through nature to eternity.
Striving each day to stay true to our principles is what safeguards our very being.
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
So in order to act well it is sufficient to judge well, and to judge as well as one can is sufficient to enable one to do one's best.
Freedom ! Let's save freedom. Freedom saves the rest.
Competence without authority is as powerless as authority without competence.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
Therefore, I beg you, do not let yourself become angry For every creature needs the help of all.
I am rising to the work of a human being.
This is a common failing of mankind, never to anticipate a storm when the sea is calm.
The end is life in agreement with nature.
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.
The finest things in life are life’s illusions.
The only mystery is there being someone who thinks about mystery.
There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.
To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.
Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Becoming human is an art.
You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree.
We are dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and farther than our predecessors, it is not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.
That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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