Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
One thought, fills immensity.
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
To be in love is to surpass one's self.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
In all intense joy there is a feeling of gratitude.
There is measure in all things.
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The way up and down is one and the same.
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All men will become brothers.
You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.
It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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