A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
From Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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