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1. Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
2. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
3. The devil is compromise.
4. Castles in the air — they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
5. The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
6. The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life — he first individualizes.
7. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
8. The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
9. A forest bird never wants a cage.
10. The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom — they are the pillars of society.
11. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
12. It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
13. These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
14. Do not use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent native word ‘lies.’
15. The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
16. Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
17. Don’t use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent native word ‘lies.’
18. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
19. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
20. The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.