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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.