Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
When words leave off, music begins.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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