One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Beware the hobby that eats.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
The secret to humor is surprise.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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