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The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message
I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.