Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.
Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.
You could not step twice into the same river.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Justice seeks no reward.
Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
Be humanity evermore our goal.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Idiots: Those who do not think like us.
Every attraction is reciprocal.
It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Matter remains, and form is lost.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
May all men remember that they are brothers!
Nothing can come of nothing.
Music is noise that thinks.
He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.
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