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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Association with women is the basis of good manners.
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
No one should be rich except those who understand it.
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.