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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never get...  
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can ...  
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.  
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of pl...  
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the p...  
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones o...  
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it...  
As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible...  
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation wit...  
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its fu...  
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kind...  
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the w...  
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it bec...  
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.  
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.  
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as...  
Example is leadership.  
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only th...  
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.  
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called li...  
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only...  
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a ...  
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to...  
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his re...  
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on ...  
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then ...   Friendship
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and fur...  
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also become...  
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.  
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by ...   Nature
Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.  
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn ...  
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are...  
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on some...  
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only stre...  
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a...  
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.  
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.  
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his o...  
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitab...  
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human ...  
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. ...  
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity wit...  
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never g...  
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the ...  
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the ...  
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the o...  
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cat...  
This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as ...  
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.  
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things...  
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we...  
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.  
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in di...  
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pur...