Few people have the imagination for reality.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Beware of a man of one book.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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