Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Zum Autor"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."