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We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
Therefore, the good of man must be the goal of the science of politics.
The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.
If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of the Enlightenment.
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.