Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I call architecture frozen music.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Wit is educated insolence.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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