Man is a sacred thing for Man.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Nature is always too strong for principle.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Earth laughs in flowers.
The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
For our improvement we need a mirror.
...that this fear of erring is really the error itself.
Meet the time as it seeks us.
Life is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always upon her shoulders.
Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Man is not born, but made man.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
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