Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.

Is there a perfect world?

No matter at all, I replied; for the point is not who said the words, but whether they are true or not.

When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.