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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher .

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

War is what happens when language fails.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.