Philosopher

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Pikiran manusia tidak cukup kaya untuk mendorong banyak kuda sejajar dan menginginkan satu skema umum, di mana ia berusaha untuk membawa semuanya.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Tidak ada yang lebih meningkatkan kebaikan selain berkorban untuknya.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Lalat yang lebih memilih rasa manis daripada umur panjang bisa tenggelam dalam madu.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

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