I Have Always Loved Truth So Passionately

The Spirit Of Rebellion Is Present In Every Great City, And The Great Task Of Wise Government Is To Keep It Dormant, For If It Wakes It Is A Torrent Which No Dam Can Hold Back.

There Is No Such Thing As A Perfectly Happy Or Perfectly Unhappy Man In The World. One Has More Happiness In His Life And Another More Unhappiness, And The Same Circumstance May Produce Widely Different Effects On Individuals Of Different Temperaments.

Enjoy The Present, Bid Defiance To The Future, Laugh At All Those Reasonable Beings Who Exercise Their Reason To Avoid The Misfortunes Which They Fear, Destroying At The Same Time The Pleasure That They Might Enjoy.

Cheating Is A Sin, But Honest Cunning Is Simply Prudence. It Is A Virtue. To Be Sure, It Has A Likeness To Roguery, But That Cannot Be Helped. He Who Has Not Learned To Practice It Is A Fool.

I Am Bound To Add That The Excess In Too Little Has Ever Proved In Me More Dangerous Than The Excess In Too Much; The Last May Cause Indigestion, But The First Causes Death.