Many who have not learnt Reason, nevertheless live according to reason.
Another's wrong act you must leave where it is.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
Silence is the great revelation.
He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
Do not try to understand everything, lest you become ignorant of everything.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Things do not lay hold of the soul.
A blind man is, he who shuts the eye of the mind.
Melody gives a sensible existence to poetry.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
What is your aim in Philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
In the middle is the safest path.
In hearing litigations, I am like any other body. What is necessary, however, is to cause the people to have no litigations.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Talent is shaped in tranquility; Character in the stream of life.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Action is character.
If you suffer pain because of some external cause, what troubles you is not the thing but your decision about it.
No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.
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