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Cause not a tree to die.
Work? It’s just serious play.
Genius speaks only to genius.
If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Some people are immune to good advice.
Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?
A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.
Make hay while the sun is still shining.
The highest of distinctions is service to others.
Only by great risks can great results be achieved.
He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Should I call the FBI and tell them I found DB Cooper?
All effective actions require the passport of morality.
To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.
Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.
Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy.
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.
Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.
There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.
The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.
I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee