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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.
In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.
All things living are in search of a better world .
. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity
When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.
Take care with the end as you do with the beginning
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.
Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
History is what the evidence compels us to believe.
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.
To love is to approach each other center to center.
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.