In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.
I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.