In our seeking for economic and political progress we all go up - or else we all go down.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am!

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas and that means that one has got beyond being shocked although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

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