One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
Genius points the way, talent takes it.
Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
The wise man is seldom prudent.
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
We are not always even what we are most.
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
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