There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, f...
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere els...
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so m...
Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
The color of truth is grey.
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...
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
