Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Revolutions go not backward.
Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
Earth laughs in flowers.
If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms We have to model what we want.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
