Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.