To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Only law can give us freedom.
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . 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. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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