The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Seize the day.
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The best is the enemy of good.
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Time is the moving image of eternity.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
But the most beautiful of all doubts Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and Stop believing in the strength Of their oppressors.
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.
When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
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