| Quotes |
Topic |
| Intolerance | Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. |
| Life | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. |
| Nature | To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
| Patriotism | A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. |
| Pride | The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
| Question | By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. |
| Religion | The Bible is literature, not dogma. |
| Repetition | Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| Self Knowledge | To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic. |
| Skepticism | Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. |
| Truth | The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. |
| Tyranny | Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. |
| Virtue | It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. |
| Weapons | Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. |
| World | One real world is enough. |
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