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If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
This is a universe that does not favor the timid.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
To feed death with her works is here life's doom.
Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?
Only psychos and shamans create their own reality
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
He that can work is born to be king of something.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.
By going out of your mind, you come to your senses
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.