The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
To know oneself is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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