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People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.
Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.