A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
A library implies an act of faith.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
He does not weep who does not see.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
The desert is where God is and Man is not.
The ones who live are the ones who struggle.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
To love is to act.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
You insist on the example (of the death penalty). Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.
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