I was born modest not all over but in spots.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
physics can be taught , love cant , learn it while you can , earn it when ever possible .
When words lose the value... nothing is left!
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours...
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Every family's its own trip to China.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our c...
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have...
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with oth...
I am a part of all that I have met.
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