The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they ne...
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
And after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing...
Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the pr...
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
It had been written with one foot in the grave and a finger in heaven. These lines, falling one by one onto the paper, were what could be called soul drops. Who could these pages come from? Who could...
في ما مضى سرقت رغيفا لكي أعيش ,لكنني اليوم أسرق اسما لكي اعيش .
Il n’y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu’elles ne regardent pas.
That night, before going to bed, he went on to say, 'Never be afraid of thieves and murderers. They represent the dangers without, which are not worth worrying about. Be afraid of ourselves. Prejudice...
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
I was dying when you came.
اسقف گفت: برای یک فرد روحانی، همانقدر شجاعت لازم است که برای سرهنگ سوارو بر این گفتهاش افزود: فقط شجاعت ما، باید ملایم باشد
التشكك: التسوّس الذي يصيب الفكر
Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
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