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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.
Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.
Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things
All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.
Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.
When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.
Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.
What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.