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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.