از آنجا که ذرهای از ارزشهای دیگری به غیر از شطرنج و پول خبر ندارد، او تمام دلایل لازم برای این که از خودش راضی باشد را دارد
Şimdi bile onları gözyaşı dökmeden düşünemiyorum ama artık gözlerimde yaş da kalmadı.
İçimin bir zamanlar ne kadar ölü olduğunu asla bilmediler
She was never to be allowed to exchange a word with him; and that she was forbidden to pay him a visit even when he was ailing. He was quarantined from her as if she had been suffering from the plague...
[... ] la sola idea de un libro con palabras alineadas, renglones, páginas y hojas, la sola idea de un libro en el que leer, perseguir y capturar pensamientos nuevos, frescos, diferentes de los míos,...
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already s...
To guard oneself from presumption.
Niets heeft zozeer als deze academische hoogmoed de Duitse intellectuelen ertoe verleid Hitler te blijven zien als de agitator van de bierhallen.
N'aie pas peur de mes paroles: une morte ne veut plus rien, elle ne veut ni amour, ni pitié, ni réconfort.
Jamás!» grita indignado. Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación. ¿No
It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: How should I live?
It is generally accepted that getting rich is the only and typical goal of the Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth. Riches are to him merely a stepping stone, a means to the true end, and in...
IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.
I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices whic...
Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war behind the actual one. During all this time it has never budged from me, that irremovable shadow, it...
He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.
Es gibt eben zweierlei Mitleid. Das eine, das schwachmütige und sentimentale, das eigentlich nur Ungeduld des Herzens ist, sich möglichst schnell freizumachen von der peinlichen Ergriffenheit vor eine...
Dù sao thời gian cũng có một uy lực rất lớn và tuổi tác đã làm lắng dịu một cách kỳ lạ tất cả mọi tình cảm. Người ta cảm thấy gần với cái chết hơn, bóng của nó làm đườn đi tối lại, mọi việc có vẻ khôn...
Bir insan kendisini bulduktan sonra, onun bu dünyada kaybedebileceği hiçbir şey yoktur. Ve o kişi kendi içindeki insanlığı anladıktan sonra, bütün insanları anlayacaktır.
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, an...