Occupation: Poet Birth: January 7, 1873 Death: September 5, 1914
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes..
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses..
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers..
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit..
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love..
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint..
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion..
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom..
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint..
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see..
Freedom is a system based on courage..
The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope..
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanit….
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity..
When you love someone you love him as he is..
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive..
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper..
When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life..
The references you do not verify are the good ones..
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation..
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear..