| Quotes |
Topic |
| Consequences | Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. |
| Dogs | To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs. |
| Enjoyment | Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. |
| Equality | That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. |
| Excuses | Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. |
| Experience | Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. |
| Fact | Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. |
| Fanatics | A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. |
| Habit | Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. |
| Heresy | It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
| Heroism | What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure. |
| History | That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach. |
| Intelligence | The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. |
| Language | Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. |
| Language | Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons. |
| Literature | The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. |
| Literature | In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. |
| Memory | Every man's memory is his private literature. |
| Miscellaneous | Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
| Music | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
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