Happiness is pleasure without regret
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Music is love in search of a voice.
People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Every heart has its own skeletons.
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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