Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Where words leave off, music begins.
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.
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