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To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.
Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.