Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.