War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.
No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Only the impossible lasts forever.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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