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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.
An individual human existence should be like a river
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.
Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.
We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.