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Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?
We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.
To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.