We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities..

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil..

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie..

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace..

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts..

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even….

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius..

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist..

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours..

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst..

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death..

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the wo….

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives..

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it.….

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth..

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere..

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people..

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordina….

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it..

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer..

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse,….