Therefore, I beg you, do not let yourself become angry For every creature needs the help of all.
I am rising to the work of a human being.
This is a common failing of mankind, never to anticipate a storm when the sea is calm.
The end is life in agreement with nature.
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
Those same things from which we get good can also be for us a source of hurt, or else we can avoid the hurt. For instance, deep water is useful for many purposes, and yet again harmful; for there is danger of being drowned. A technique has therefore been invented: instruction in swimming.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.
The finest things in life are life’s illusions.
The only mystery is there being someone who thinks about mystery.
There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.
To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.
Becoming human is an art.
You, as a human being, you grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree.
We are dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and farther than our predecessors, it is not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.
That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! Galileo: No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
One must be on one's guard against the bad man, lest he seize his opportunity.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
There is humility in gratitude, and humility is difficult.
How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.
The superior man does not put aside good words because of the man.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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