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.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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