The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.