No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
I saw the sunset forty-four times!
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
honesty dies in selling itself.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Vanity is but the surface.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The only thing constant in life is change
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Fear could never make virtue.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
There is no real force without justice.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
