“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.”
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“He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.”
“Times of general calamity and confusion, have ever been productive of the greatest minds.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.”
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.”
“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.”
“A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.”
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.”
“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”
“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”