Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
It takes a long time to become young.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Knowledge is power.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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