No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
From Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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