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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.