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Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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