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Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.
Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.
Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.