Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Have courage to use your own reason!
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
The stars of your destiny are in your heart.
I accept the great adventure of being me.
Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea Gone with the sun.
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.
One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.
We have need of morality only for want of love.
To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.
The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Change alone is the constant.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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