Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper, and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
Language is a system whose parts can and must all be considered in their synchronic solidarity.
The value of just any term is accordingly determined by its environment.
Great souls endure in silence.
A child deserves the maximum respect.
Man is not entirely to blame; it was not he who started history; nor is he entirely innocent, since he continues it.
Reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just.
History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
What history relates is only the long, heavy, confused dream of humanity.
Ignorance is better than an affected knowledge.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
A man's nobility is not affected by poverty, as it is by riches.
All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
One cannot judge a life by any less true measure than death.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
It is by playing the man, or the woman well that one helps humanity to exist. And it is necessary: it needs you just as you need it!
Education is not confined to childhood and adolescence. Learning is not limited to the schools. Throughout life, our milieu is our teacher, at once stern and dangerous.
Nothing is more relaxing than accepting what is coming.
Even if everyone agrees, everyone can be wrong.
And so I leave On cruel winds Squalling And gusting me Like a dead leaf Falling.
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.
There is something in man that even the spirit of man does not know.
It is only the truth that offends.
To have talent, you must be convinced that you possess it.
Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.
Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion.
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