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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

People don’t really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don’t want to know.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.