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 | "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than
because he was he, and I was I." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search
of." | |
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Found in the topic Me.
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| "No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own
legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own
bottom." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will
be making gods by dozens. different translation Man is certainly crazy. He
could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more
sport than she makes me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a
pastime to her more than she is to me? When I play with my cat, who knows
if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?" | |
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Found in the topic Amusement.
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| "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought
nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." | |
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Found in the topic Quotations.
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| "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and
thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten
times in his life." | |
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Found in the topic Hanging.
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| "We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and
because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung
by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of
friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is
to have a healthy love for him." | |
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Found in the topic Crisis.
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| "The thing I fear most is fear." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness." | |
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Found in the topic Cheerful.
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| "The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows
not discreetly how to use it." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "My trade and my art is living." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "We can be knowledgable with other men"s knowledge but we cannot be
wise with other men"s wisdom." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me." | |
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Found in the topic Prudent.
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| "Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons
herself." | |
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Found in the topic Wickedness.
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| "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more
stupid." | |
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Found in the topic Madness.
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| "Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside frantic to get
in and those inside frantic to get out." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we
do." | |
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Found in the topic Nature.
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| "I quote others only the better to express myself." | |
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Found in the topic Others.
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| "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the
young know everything." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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