General Sayings

The world is a bad master, and it does not pay to serve it.

Why are you studying philosophy if you have no need of it?

For in their own eyes they are like the gods, and look down on other mortals with contempt.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

All cultures are hybrid, mixed, heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated, and unmonolithic.

If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Humans are now hackable animals.

The oppressed know that they are oppressed, but they do not know the causes of their oppression.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?

A man is born for sincerity. If he is not sincere, he will not be able to live.

A man's learning is not complete until he ceases to learn.

Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I often think that the only way to be happy is to be ignorant.

Beauty will save the world.

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time.

I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be.

As the cat said to the rat, 'Don't make me laugh!'

Humor is a good way of making people laugh.