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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.
The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.