Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
The good is the beautiful.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Science is nothing but perception.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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