The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
A man given to vice is always an idealist.
The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
Hell is not to love anymore.
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
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