A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
All things obey money.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Fools are without number.
For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.
I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth.
If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
It is the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldst have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
No man is wise at all times, or is without his blind side.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Only busy saints and true villains forsake activities which give them pleasure. If you regard yourself as neither, enjoy the world as your own.
Prevention is better than cure.
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Talk of the devil and he'll appear.
The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The wedlock of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
When I get a little money, I buy books- if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Who feed on Hope, hang on but do not live.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Your library is your paradise.
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