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- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
- A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
- Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
- The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future…
- The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis…
- Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.…
- Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works…
- There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us…
- No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days…
- The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
- As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect…
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
- When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung…
- The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we…
- When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang…
- The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us.....
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
- A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a…
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing…
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong