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The goal of all life is death.






It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.






Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.






Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.






If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.






Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.






Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.






Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.






Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.






Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.






Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.






A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.






Will it, and set to work briskly.






Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.






I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.






No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.






Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.






I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?






Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.






Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.






Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.






As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?






Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.






Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.






The doors of wisdom are never shut.






Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.






The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.






To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.






It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.






Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.










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