When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Peace is its own reward.
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