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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

He who dares not , is a slave.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.