On all the peaks lies peace.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Life must be lived as play.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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.
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