“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language / If God did not exist, it

would be necessary to invent Him / Death is not the worst that can happen to men / Knowledge is true opinion /

Music is a moral law, it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and

gaiety to life and to everything / the wisest have the most authority / Human behavior flows from three main

sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge / The beginning is the most important part of the work/Ignorance, the

root and stem of all evil / The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction / There

must always remain something that is antagonistic to good / There are two things a person should never be

angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot / The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be

conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile / The most important part of education is proper

training in the nursery / No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death / People are like dirt.

They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and

die / Love is a serious mental disease, except love of the God / mother / Knowledge without justice ought to be

called cunning rather than wisdom / Man is condemned to be free and is the measure of all things / No one is a

friend to his friend who does not love in return/Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it./ Wherever you

go, go with all your heart/Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure

to be failure / It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love / This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good

things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get / Man is born free, but is everywhere in

chains” Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated / The roots of education are bitter, but the

fruit is sweet/Silence is a true friend who never betrays/He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks

but does not learn is in great danger / You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest

quality of the mind next to honor/The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of

contemplation rather than upon mere survival / The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of

things, but their inward significance/ The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands

what will sell / Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is cont /

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” –emplative / A good decision is

based on knowledge and not on numbers / The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain / It is

wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence / There is but one truly

serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide / The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty,

brutish, and short / The unexamined life is not worth living / He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great

errors / Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination / Liberty consists in doing what one desires /

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance / The mind is furnished with ideas by experience

alone / You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation / The greater the

difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it / We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone”