Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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.
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