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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.
Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath
You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
The boundaries of "our universe" are not the boundaries of "the universe."