An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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