Politics have no relation to morals.
Time is money.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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