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?
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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