There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
Beauty is a gift of God.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
All men are alike when asleep.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
There is honor in being a dog.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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