We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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