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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Music is the brandy of the damned.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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