Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
It is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.[about chess]
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
