It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.
How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.
Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow: Gather today the roses of life.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
I is another.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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.
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