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So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.
A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.
Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.
The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.
Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.
Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.
If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.