Self love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many unexplored territories there.
Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
To forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
No man is wise at all times, or is without his blind side.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
The good is the beautiful.
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