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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.