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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
