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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.