Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Life well spent is long.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Death is a fearful thing.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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