No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

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