Patience is a virtue, Possess it if you can, Seldom found in woman, Never found in man |
Pleasure in wealth is a fickle joy |
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is respelled by it. |
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. |
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence. |
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. |
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. |
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. |
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. |
The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a |
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. |
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. |
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. |
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. |
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals |