Ludwig Borne Quotes

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Nought endures but change.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.