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The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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.

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