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All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again:
Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Man remembers and combines but does not create.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue ...

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink,
But is the dance less full of fun?

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

[ ... ] it is not easy to talk [ ... ] religion to men who measure excellence by forbidden meats [ ... ]

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.