It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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