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Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.
A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.
In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.
The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.
Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Those who do not know history will forever remain children
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.
Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child
If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.