Society and the World

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Common sense is not so common.

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

These two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and … they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

These two nations have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and … they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things.

Ultima Thule.

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Bella, horrida bella,

Varium et mutabile semper Femina.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Neutrinos, they are very small

The innocents abroad.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

I didn’t fire him [General MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.