The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.
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