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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.