Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
People spend money when and where they feel good.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
No man should be angry with what is true.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
