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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of tru...
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Le...
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing w...
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
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“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."(Notebooks)”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much st...
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
“Men argue. Nature acts.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that s...
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
