There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Friends are thieves of time.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Love conquers all.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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