A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
When desire dies, fear is born.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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