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In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.