Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Change in all things is sweet.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Honesty is the best policy.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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