There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
A useless life is an early death.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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