“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Death“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
Life“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Death“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
Love“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Happiness“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
Death“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
God“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Fear“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
Life“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Future“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Good“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
Life“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
Experience“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Intelligence“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
Life“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Money“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
War“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Happiness“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
Love“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
Change“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
Love“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”
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