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One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.
We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.
All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.