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- As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
- It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us…
- One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
- The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed…
- The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall…
- If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
- Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
- Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
- Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
- God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all…
- Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
- If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life…
- If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
- Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
- He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is…
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that…
- No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us…
- The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to…
- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us…
- Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
- Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has…
- There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
- The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
- Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from…
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