Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. . . God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i. e. , to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.