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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
We delight in the beauty of butterfly, rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty*
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Only deeds of truth, by introducing light into the conscience of each individual, can dissolve the cohe...
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman...
At certain epochs of history, there are pleiades of great men; at other epochs, there are pleiades of vagabonds. But do not confound the epoch, the moment of Louis Bonaparte, with the 19th century: t...
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Oriental studies have never been so intensive.... In the century of Louis XIV one was a Hellenist, today one is an Orientalist.... The Orient has become a sort of general preoccupation.... We shall se...
I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
Condemn me if you choose — I do that myself, — but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If...
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become fri...
Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.
Six feet of land was all that he needed.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law...
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of ...