Do not feel certain of anything.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.