One’s life is a heavy price to pay for being born.
There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to.
Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
The greatest victory is defeat.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.