Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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