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Numa's virtue made him so celebrated that he was judged worthy to be king, Lykurgus' made him so great that he did not care to be king.

As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.

as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy

But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.

For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.

For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.

Just to touch the lichened bark of a tree, or the end of a spray projecting over the path as I walked, seemed to repeat the same prayer in me.

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.

A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.

success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.