The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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