Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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