Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.
Seek to be counselled, seek not to be praised.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Hope may seem a kind of Leaf-joy, and like Gold, extremely ductile.
The mask is torn off, the reality remains.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless.
There is no need to wait to be saved to be human.
By your actions, you give me reason to believe you.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.
No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.
It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.
Let's not be English, French or German any more. Let's be European. No, not European, let's be men. Let's be humanity. All we have to do is get rid of one last piece of egocentricity - patriotism.
Where laws prevail, there can the people prevail.
I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
And knows that to win without danger is to win without glory.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
He who controls himself once can always control himself.
Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.
There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.
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