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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil
The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.
It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.