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... nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you ... a subtle and immortal spirit.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts ... and the face of every man is their ledger.

There is no gift more great than love.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.
[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

alcohol played the midwife

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.