Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them!

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.