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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
Organized people are just too lazy to look for things
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.
Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact
Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?