A kiss may ruin a human life
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.
We just cannot worry about ourselves.
He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
