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Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach

Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think

The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are

The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe

Faith plays an important role in an open society. Exactly because our understanding is imperfect, we cannot base our decisions

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well

Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how

There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in