Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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