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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.