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Happy people are poor psychologists.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
All office workers are afraid of being late for work.
The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.
To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.
Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.