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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Live your own dream, not the expectations of others.
The authentic is not knowable, but it is experiencable.
Authenticity is an ongoing process, not a static state.
Existence is not its own justification.
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.