You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
What is past is prologue.
The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
Passion makes a man live; wisdom only makes him last!
For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
To philosophize is to think rather than to know, to question rather than to explain.
Virtue is in the heart, and nowhere else.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.
Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible.
The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.
Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You want peace: create love.
Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.
The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind.
From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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