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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.