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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

Music is only love looking for words.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Only the shallow know themselves.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.