We are both of us neighbors of the sky, Madame, Since you are beautiful and I am old.
Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
The rest belongs to the music as well.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
We are of our childhood as we are from a country.
Healthy is who can't recall.
Truth must gain ground without violence.
Time heals griefs and quarrels.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Your own senses you shall think to the end!
The beginnings of all things are small.
The eyes cannot know the nature of things.
Grammar which rules even kings, and makes them, with a high hand, obey her laws.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.
Opponents often need each other more than friends, for without wind, the mills won't run.
Unless the vessel be sweet, whatever you pour into it turns sour.
Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.
Simplicity can only exist in what is true.
He who is born to obey will obey even on the throne.
'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.
Each life makes its destiny.
There are no contradictions in nature.
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