Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere

A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don ‘ t like, and have no happiness.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

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.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

It is almost 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...

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;…utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.

He despises men with tenderness

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us,...

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

The impotence of God is infinite

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best