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- Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
- Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves…
- Only law can give us freedom.
- It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
- No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
- If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom…
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
- Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives…
- Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon…
- A distracted existence leads us to no goal
- That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
- Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
- We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
- Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past…
- It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or…
- Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
- Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong