Rafael Sabatini Quotes

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• The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
• In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
• I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is…
• Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...
• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
• An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of…
• He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
• It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was…
• Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of…
• There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.
• When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass…
• Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest…
• Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.
• ...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
• Only he who is without anything is without enemies.
• Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it,…
• But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
• To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

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