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- Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
- In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human…
- ...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and…
- The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and…
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
- When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under…
- Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has…
- All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
- It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
- Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's…
- It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by…
- Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
- In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of…
- Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
- To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally…
- It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
- It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy…
- There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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