We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
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The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.
Time is the moving image of eternity.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
But the most beautiful of all doubts Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and Stop believing in the strength Of their oppressors.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.
When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
Language is a source of misunderstanding.
The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
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