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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.
Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one
Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.
The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.
To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.