A war between Europeans is a civil war.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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.
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.
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