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.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
Trust your heart rather than your head.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
Living is not breathing but doing.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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.
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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