The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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