It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Few people do business well who do nothing else
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves. . . . Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch