A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Things never happen the same way twice.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Do you have any suggestions on how to improve this page?
and then