It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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Where there is love there is life.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
My trade and art is to live.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
My life is my message.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Don't forget to love yourself.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
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