That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I call architecture frozen music.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Wit is educated insolence.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
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