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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.
The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.
Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.
In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.