Upon my word, cried my adversary, annoyed, if you did not want to fight, why did not you let me alone? Yesterday I was a fool, to-day I know better, I answered him gayly. As to yesterday, I believe yo...
People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty.
O sol vai nascer e – olhem para ele, por acaso não é um cadáver? Tudo está morto, e há cadáveres por todas as partes
Money is the honey of humanity.
In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart!
He was one of that countless and multifarious legion of vulgar persons, sickly abortions and half-educated petty tyrants who like a flash attach themselves to the current ideas that are most fashionab...
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy...
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more.
The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
وأزدادت وطأة وحدتي وصمتي حتى أصبحتُ لا أجرؤ على أن أخرج منها...
In the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to ma...
They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world!...
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In
Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before You today.’ For every hour, every second, thousands of men leave this world and their soul...
Realism that is limited to the end of one's nose is more dangerous than the most insane fantasticality, because it's blind.
Money equalizes all inequalities.