The great pleasures come from the contemplation of noble works.
The world is nothing but variety and dissimilarity.
But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.
Men are as the time is.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
No need to be praised when you are sure of yourself. He who seeks praise doubts his own worth.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way
Anything that increases freedom increases responsibility.
Geometry, is not concerned with the relation of the ideas involved in it to objects of experience, but only with the logical connection of these ideas among themselves.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Analysis operates on immobility, while intuition is located in mobility or, what amounts to the same thing, in duration. That is the very clear line of demarcation between intuition and analysis.
All the good are friends of one another.
It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not so constituted as to create our judgements upon them.
The criterion of the advantageous and disadvantageous is enjoyment and lack of enjoyment.
The happiness of mankind lies in working together, in living as if each individual had set himself the task of contributing to the common welfare.
It is right that men should value the soul rather than the body; for perfection of soul corrects the inferiority of the body, but physical strength without intelligence does nothing to improve the mind.
To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.
Peace starts with each one of us.
Sincerity is contagious.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Passing through nature to eternity.
Striving each day to stay true to our principles is what safeguards our very being.
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
So in order to act well it is sufficient to judge well, and to judge as well as one can is sufficient to enable one to do one's best.
Freedom ! Let's save freedom. Freedom saves the rest.
Competence without authority is as powerless as authority without competence.
The envious man torments himself like an enemy.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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