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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville /





In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald /





Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain /





The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
René Descartes /





Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde /





Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain /





Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci /





An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu /





Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin /





The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn / 
 





Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire /





The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville /





He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato /





Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson /





The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain /





Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde /





To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw /





There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius /





I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Plato /





The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville /





There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway /





Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein /





War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler /





Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius /





Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo /





Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire /





We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw /





God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes /






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