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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.