Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.