Realists do not fear the results of their study.
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.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
The formula ‘Two and two make five’ is not without its attractions.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
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