If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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