Aphorisms
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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