580 quotes found
“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themse...”
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
“...luck is not to be coerced.”
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken. ”
“I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.”
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, ...”
“In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that...”
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nih...”
