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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.
An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.
Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.