All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Nature never breaks her own laws.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
He who thinks little, errs much.
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The superior man seeks to perfect the admirable qualities of men, and does not seek to perfect their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of this.
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