Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Bad men are full of repentance.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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.
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