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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.  
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.  
A man by himself is in bad company.  
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasa...  
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one'...  
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence t...  
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.  
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child ...  
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.  
Children are the keys of paradise.  
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good...  
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion eve...  
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.  
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of na...  
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.  
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we ...  
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.  
Facts are counterrevolutionary.  
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for los...  
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not wa...  
However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves...  
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.  
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future....  
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find ...  
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the ...  
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.  
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excite...  
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection o...  
It is not the wickedness of the old regime [the masses] rise against b...  
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertaki...  
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetratin...  
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to actio...  
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the fe...  
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creati...  
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us tha...  
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by ...  
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opport...  
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.  
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ...  
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns f...  
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved b...  
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinner...  
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing ...  
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any autom...  
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves o...  
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconfo...  
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happ...  
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispens...  
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when w...  
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than whe...  
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.  
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that ki...  
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do...  
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.  
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled...  
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the qual...  
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is mi...  
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but...  
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for le...  
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want ...  
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anyt...  
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over t...  
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.  
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our...  
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a m...  
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the langua...  
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a youn...  
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursui...  
The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by t...  
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the futur...  
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical athiest but...  
The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other liv...  
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into ...  
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our van...  
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easil...  
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.  
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers ...  
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a for...  
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.  
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's ...  
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passion...  
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The f...  
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimat...  
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has a...  
There would be no society if living together depended upon understandi...  
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make t...  
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actua...  
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not...  
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of w...  
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.  
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its ar...  
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are mo...  
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.  
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come t...  
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to...  
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of...  
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on t...  
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as ...  
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.  
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.  
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each o...  
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are like...  
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a c...  
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the fam...  
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acq...  
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from th...  
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he ...  
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.