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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.