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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
It is the distance between us that creates language.
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors