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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.