My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
The main scourge of humanity is not ignorance, because the ignorant often have excuses, but the refusal to know.
One can say that to some extent fascism has added a new variation to the old art of lying — the most devilish variation — that of lying the truth.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
Every animal loves itself.
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Irony hurts, humour treats. Irony can kill; humour helps to live. Irony wants to establish domination; humour liberates. Irony is cruel, humor is forgiving. Irony is humiliating; humor is humble.
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
To save all we must dare all.
The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
Nothing so much prevents us from being natural as the desire to appear so.
Love eagerly believes everything it wants to.
Women forge themselves the chains with which men do not wish to burden them.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
All man's misfortune consists in this one thing, his inability to remain quietly in one room.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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