Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Heaven means to be one with God.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Hatred is settled anger.
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