He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.
Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled.But learning just as certainly that h...
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this a...
Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered w...
The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.
But most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questions, all aiming at bringing out clearly the moral beau...
Patriotism , as a feeling of exclusive love for one's own people, and as a doctrine of tile virtue of sacrificing one's tranquillity, one's property, and ever, one's life, in defence of one's own peop...
-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.
There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.