The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
The greatest people are those who can give hope to others.
Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.
The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.
It requires management to enjoy life.
Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.
It is through fraternity that liberty is saved.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
For the foolish, not reason but advantage is the teacher.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
What does certainty prove?
If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
The love of democracy is that of equality.
The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.
Things which are without measure may not long endure.
Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!
Have I done a neighbourly act? I am thereby benefited.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by “facts” but by our interpretation of the facts.
Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
When I had all the answers, the questions changed.
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