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A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.
Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
The gift of prayer is not always at our command.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?
But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
