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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?
The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.
I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.