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- Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
- In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral…
- Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
- Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
- Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace…
- True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,…
- [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,…
- A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
- Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and…
- The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
- In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.
- Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world…
- To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all…
- I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside…
- At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from…
- Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
- The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself…
- Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
- A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of…
- Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a…
- All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is just the sun…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle