All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Death pays all debts.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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