War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
The desire to write grows with writing.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Your library is your paradise.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of deat...
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Humility is truth.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them...
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.