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If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.