The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. |
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. |
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. |
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her |
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her |
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. |
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. |
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. |
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. |
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. |
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. |
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. |
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. |
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor |
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. |