How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Do not scorn little victories.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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