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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
Let every man practice the art that he knows best.
I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
The body is our general medium for having a world.
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.