There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to...

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to...

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests,...

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests,...

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A nation never falls but by suicide

A nation never falls but by suicide

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on...

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on...

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before...

I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before...

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix