FridayJul 24, 2026
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
It is well for the heart to be naive And for the mind not to be.
Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Chance is perhaps God's pseudonym when he does not want to sign.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsadmiration or pity.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Until one has loved an animal, part of ones soul remains unawakened.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread.
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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