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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.
The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.
The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.
Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
The continued existence of society depends upon private property.