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Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.