“You should not speak arrogantly to your mother; that causes hatred for you.”
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“Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.”
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”
“We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.”
“A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.”
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”