Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Depression is rage spread thin.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
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