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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Morality is contraband in war.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
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