The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
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