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 language of truth is simple.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
The stars of your destiny are in your heart.
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.
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
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.
To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.
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.
Man is the future of man.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The sun is new each day.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Love truth, but pardon error.
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To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
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