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- Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
- The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
- If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for…
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts…
- As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which…
- The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
- The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
- And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any…
- Read less, study less, but think more
- People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness…
- People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than…
- Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night…
- The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things…
- The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.
- In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
- Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
- If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was…
- Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
- At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the…
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle