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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
What we love to do we find time to do.
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.