Quotes 501 till 520 of 559.
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
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We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
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