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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.
Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.
By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.
The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.
Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
A person in torment is not going to give you anything.
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.
Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
The photographic image... is a message without a code.