For knowledge itself is power.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
