I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
God helps those who help themselves.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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