I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
There is no substitute for hard work.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
All bibles are man-made.
By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”
“The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.”
It is one of the superstitions of mankind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
A single part of physics occupies the lives of many men, and often leaves them dying in uncertainty.