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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment from God.
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.
remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.