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One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman