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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
If you would seek health, look first to the spine.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.
Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.