Quotes from Ludwig Borne

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.