We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

The cleverest of all in my opinion is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month

Times of crisis of disruption or constructive change are not only predictable but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most.

The more cunning a man is the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is the simpler the trap he must be caught in.

Who doesnt desire his fathers death

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

Never mind a little dirt if the goal is splendid

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows hes in prison.

I say let the world go to hell but I should always have my tea.

The more you succeed in loving the more youll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation and that is an old truthwell known to all intelligent people.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.