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"People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about." François de La Rochefoucauld

No es mi inteligencia la que me ayuda, sino el diablo.

Do not fear ever to think.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

...My thesis is this, I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.

you are noble, too, for you trust, and trust cannot be where there is a mean nature

We learn from failure, not from success!

knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.

And yet there is cause. There is always cause for everything.

What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?

When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done.

a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

La pobreza no es un vicio: esto es una verdad incuestionable. (...) Ahora bien, señor; la miseria sí es un vicio. En la pobreza, uno conserva la nobleza de sus sentimientos innatos; en la indigencia, nadie puede conservar nada noble.

Es chocante que lo que más temor inspira a los hombres sea aquello que les aparta de sus costumbres

Un home sense Déu és com una flor sense terra. Si es marceix no és a causa de l'Absolut, sinó del seu absolut desarrelament.

"Una porta es tanca, una altra s'obrirà", es va dir, amb una confiança suprema en ell mateix. Havia après a distingir la tenacitat de l'obstinació: saber insistir i perseveraren el bon moment, saber també retirar-se i renunciar quan cal. "La saviesa —es repetia— és deixar créixer el que neix, assaborir el que és madur i deixar anar el que és mort."

He was beginning to understand that some secrets should remain as secrets because they do not have any answers, and there are questions the answers to which it is better no one knows.

I think fate doesn't just happen,you need to arrive at it, and if the events in your life come together and start to arrange themselves into a plot, then it may cast you quite far...It is most interesting that a person may not even suspect that this is happening to him,or may conceive what has happened based on a false premise,by attempting to systematize events to match his own world view.But fate has his own logic.

The life of someone who has been sentenced to death is different from the life of a normal person in only one way: the one knows exactly when he will die, and the regular person is in the dark about it, and consequently it seems he can live forever, even though it's entirely possible that he could be killed in a catastrophic event the following day.Death isn't frightening by itself.What's frightening is expecting it.

You can't live in constant awareness of your mortality. You had to forget about it, and though these thoughts came to you anyway, you had to drive them away, to smother them, otherwise they could take root in your consciousness and they would make your life a misery.You can't think about the fact that you'll die.Otherwise you might go mad.There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Artyom was surprised again how varied, how different music can be and how much it can affect one's mood.

Chemists—I assert it emphatically—might sway, if they pleased, the destinies of humanity. (...) Mind, they say, rules the world. But what rules the mind? The body (...) lies at the mercy of the most omnipotent of all potentates—the Chemist.

One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege!

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

It holds with animals, it holds with children, and it holds with women, who are nothing but children grown up. Quiet resolution is the one quality the animals, the children, and the women all fail in. If they can once shake this superior quality in their master, they get the better of HIM. If they can never succeed in disturbing it, he gets the better of THEM.

Human ingenuity, my friend, has hitherto only discovered two ways in which a man can manage a woman. One way is to knock her down—a method largely adopted by the brutal lower orders of the people, but utterly abhorrent to the refined and educated classes above them. The other way (much longer, much more difficult, but in the end not less certain) is never to accept a provocation at a woman's hands.

...el amor, Govinda, me parece que es lo más importante que existe. Penetrar en el mundo, explicarlo y despreciarlo, es cuestión de interés para los grandes filósofos. Pero a mí, únicamente me interesa el poder amar a ese mundo, no despreciarlo; no odiarlo ni aborrecerme a mí mismo: a mí sólo me atrae la contemplación del mundo y de mí mismo, y de todos los seres, con amor, admiración y respeto.

Puedo amar a una piedra, a un árbol o a su corteza. Pero no se puede amar a las palabras. Por ello las doctrinas no me sirven, no tienen dureza ni blandura, no tienen colorido ni cánticos, ni olor ni sabor; palabras son y nada más.