At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
We do not judge the people we love.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The more laws, the less justice.
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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