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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.