I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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.
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