I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him, but to God, that the gift was made.

Criticism may not be agreeable but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal, one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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