Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

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