If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Common sense is not so common.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
Dare to think for yourself.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
We are all guilty of the good we did not do
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
