Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Applause waits on success.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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