Fit yourself into accord with the things in which your portion has been cast, and love the men among whom your lot has fallen, but love them truly.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.
I will not be afflicted at men's not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.
The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.
Too many words leave you speechless.
He who contradicts and chatters much is ill-fitted for learning what he ought.
What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.
And therefore justice is often thought to be the greatest of virtues, and 'neither evening nor morning star' is so wonderful; and proverbially 'in justice is every virtue comprehended'.
Not only were we happy, but we knew it.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
The only way to want, is to act.
Nothing is ours, except time.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Truth and clarity are complementary.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
If you see a great master, you will always find that he used what was good in his predecessors, and that it was this which made him great.
Man is neither good nor bad, he is born with instincts and aptitudes.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
It's never too late, but it's always high time.
Health is the primary duty of life.
The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
One should be good, or else imitate the one who is good.
Man is born for pleasure; he feels it; no other proof of it is needed.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.
A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.
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