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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.
Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.
No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear
Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.