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We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.