 Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. |
| There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Topics: Courage |
| Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. |
| Stupidity talks, vanity acts. |
| Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. |
| The learned man knows that he is ignorant. |
| One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. |
| To contemplate is to look at shadows. |
| The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. |
| Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. |
| Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. |
| Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. |
| When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. |
| Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. |
| The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. |
| To love is to act. |
| Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. |
| One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' |
