 Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. |
| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. |
| 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. |
| Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. |
| An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. |
| Silence is the wit of fools. |
| That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. |
| What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! |
| I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. |
| All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. |
| Nine tenths of education is encouragement. |
| Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. |
| Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. |
| Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. |
| Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. |
| 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. |
| What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. |
