A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
While there's life, there's hope.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
True friends stab you in the front.
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