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- No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
- If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
- God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
- It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of…
- Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
- All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
- I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
- The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and…
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
- The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of…
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
- With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How…
- Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
- In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the…
- That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
- In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be…
- And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old…
- Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the…
- It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
- Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow…
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- Genius: the superhuman in man.
- Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the…
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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