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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.