True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The more laws, the less justice.
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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