 Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. |
| He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. |
| Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. |
| Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. |
| A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. |
| I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. |
| I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. |
| Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. |
| The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. |
| The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. |
| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. |
| Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. |
| We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. |
| The world is but a perpetual see-saw. |
| The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. |
| If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. |
| Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. Topics: Courage |
| Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. |
| We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. |
| The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. |
