Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Living is not breathing but doing.
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
Finance is a slave's word.
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