If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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.
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
Beware of a man of one book.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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