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Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
 
There is a secret to live a happy life, but it remains, in fact, a secret.
 
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
 
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
 
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
 
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.
 
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
 
When it comes to politics, the facts far exceed our curiosity."
 
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
 
What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?
 
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
 
To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.
 
Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. For ‘consciousness of sin’ is a real event and so are despair and salvation through faith. Those who speak of such things (Bunyan, for instance) are simply describing what has happened to them, whatever gloss anyone may want to put on it.
 
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But, though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.
 
Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer a favor, who's available, who's under the protection of a jealous spouse. And being the first to get a piece of gossip is like engaging in insider trading: You can capitalize on an opportunity before anyone else can.
 
E poi mi chiedono perché sono asociale. Ma l’avete vista bene la gente che c’è in giro?
 
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.
 
Religion is just mind control.
 
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
 
CYNIC: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
 
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