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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.
Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.