People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty.
Outwardly it's the truth, but inwardly, a lie!
Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.
In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart!
I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I reall...
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?''Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless...
He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may th...
We are all happy if we only knew it.
I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly as possible that gift of freedom with which the miserable creature is born. But he alone can ta...
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more.
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
…Ëndërrimtari, po t’i bëjmë një përkufizim të hollësishëm, nuk është njeri, por, si me thënë, një krijesë e gjinisë së mesme. Gjallon të shumtën e kohës në ndonjë kënd të humbur, a thua se i fshihet e...
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...
What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people,
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...
Through children the soul is healed…
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the undergr...
The morning was so damp and misty