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- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is…
- We are all born marked for evil.
- Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely…
- If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more…
- All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and…
- All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of…
- The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the…
- The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity…
- Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.…
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,…
- Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
- You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time…
- Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
- Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine…
- If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more…
- As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
- I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born…
- I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in…
- We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
- Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for…
- Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
- How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle