“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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

Become who you are!

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Only sick music makes money today.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

Sometimes, you’re the person taking advantage of yourself.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.