Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Where love is, there God is also.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
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