Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Der beste Spiegel ist das Auge eines guten Freundes.
Auch aus Steinen, die in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen.
Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Auch eine Reise von tausend Meilen beginnt mit einem Schritt.
Denken ist Reden mit sich selbst.
Resignation ist die sublimste Rache am Schicksal.
Wenn der Mensch sich selbst bleibt, bleibt ihm viel.
Denkt ans fünfte Gebot: Schlagt eure Zeit nicht tot!
Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre.
Wunschlosigkeit führt zu innerer Ruhe.
Die Wahrheit liegt in der Mitte: zwischen zwei Menschen, die aufeinander zugehen.
Den optimalen Ertrag seiner Arbeitszeit holt nicht der heraus, der möglichst lange sitzt, sondern der, der den Wechsel von Anspannung und Entspannung am förderlichsten organisiert.
Like my dad used to say: the most important thing in life is sincerity; you just have to learn how to fake that.
Der Wechsel allein ist das Beständige.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Lieber ist der Mensch ein störendes, nervendes, abstoßendes Etwas als ein unsichtbares, unbemerktes, leeres Nichts.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
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