Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
War is like love it always finds a way.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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