The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.
What seems most likely is generally true.
gossip is just the small change of conversation.
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.
Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.
Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.
People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.