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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.