The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
I am for religion, against religions.
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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