Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.Collection: Truth
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.Collection: Truth
To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.Collection: Heart
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.Collection: Advice
You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.Collection: Love
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.Collection: Inspirational
Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.Collection: Liberty
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.Collection: Sarcastic
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.Collection: Hate
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.Collection: Women
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.Collection: Country
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.Collection: Funny
The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.Collection: Fear
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.Collection: Change
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]Collection: Doe
Nought endures but change.Collection: Change