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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.






Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.






The doors of wisdom are never shut.






Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.






The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.






To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.






It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.






Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.






Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.






Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.






Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.






Men's vows are women's traitors!






It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.






My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.






Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.






Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?






Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.






Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.






Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.






The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.






I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.






To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.






Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.






To do a great right do a little wrong.






A bad peace is even worse than war.






Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.






For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.






Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.






Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.






We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.










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