1. “A man real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”
2. “A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.”
3. “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
4. “Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
5. “The mind of a man is capable of anything.”
6. “A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.”
7. “A train of thought is never false. the falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.”
8. “To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.”
9. “It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.”
10. “Never test another man by your own weakness.”
11. “The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.”
12. “Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”
13. “God is for man and religion for women.”
14. “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
15. “Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.”
16. “Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.”
17. “Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.”
18. “Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”
19. “Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.”
20. “What makes mankind tragic is not that they are victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”
21. “One can’t live with one’s finger everlastingly on one’s pulse.”
22. “Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”
23. “You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
24. “Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”
25. “Gossip is what no one claims to like but everybody enjoys.”
26. “All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.”
27. “The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
28. “If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything.”
29. “Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.”
30. “All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
