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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
Wise men hear and see as little children do.
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.
The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
Socialist society is a society of officials.
The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
A home without books is a body without soul.
There is no place more delightful than home.
It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
All genuine learning is active, not passive.
The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
There is no love which does not become help.
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
A house that has a library in it has a soul.
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
Wherever there is a number, there is beauty.
Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.
Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
I have not a desire but a need for solitude.