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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.
There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.