Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
Integrity needs no rules.
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Find your happiness in yourself.
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