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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
It is a law, that every event depends on some law.
Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.
There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
How do I become still? By flowing with the stream.
Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.
If you never assume importance, you never lose it.
Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.
In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.
The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.
Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism
The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.