The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Τίποτε δεν είναι πιο ανυπόφορο για έναν άνθρωπο από το να είναι σε πλήρη απραξία, χωρίς ένα πάθος, χωρίς δουλειά, χωρίς διασκέδαση, χωρίς φροντίδες.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”